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by snthd 564 days ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8294566/

>Surveys conducted over the last few years on representative samples in the US and Germany suggest that the percentage of parents who regret having children is approximately 17–8%.

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In the study linked it seems that factors like:

- Financial difficulties

- Being a single parent

- Having children with a disability

All seem to vastly influence the result.

I'd be curious to see regret vs. would you make the same choice again. I can imagine parents nor regretting it, but maybe thinking about it twice if they had known what to expect.