Regretful Parents

“I Feel Like Her Burden Has Been Set Free”

Regretful Parents

Show Notes

⚠️ Content warning: this episode discusses the death of a child.

A post from the I Regret Having Children Facebook page, written by someone about their friend, who got pregnant in college and lost the baby last year. The poster thinks she seems more relieved than sad. Kristen and Erika get into who gets to decide what grief is supposed to look like, and then spend a while arguing about whether they’d die for a child they’d just watched hit a cat with a stick.

Don’t get pregnant.

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