# Help me test my theory about people who don't like kids **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 11, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-test-my-theory-about-people-who-dont-like-kids/376113 "2006-10-11T22:30:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-test-my-theory-about-people-who-dont-like-kids/376113/61 "2006-10-20T12:54:25Z")
[QUOTE=Rilchiam] So basically, I don’t try to be a friend or an enemy; I just try to be a person. And that usually works. [/QUOTE] That’s really lovely. Something to think about. ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-test-my-theory-about-people-who-dont-like-kids/376113/62 "2006-10-20T16:59:27Z")
[QUOTE=Gestalt] This is a statement that always elicts a certain curiosity in me, when I hear about people who have children, yet don’t like children outside of their own. If you don’t mind me asking, if you dislike babies/toddlers so much, why do you want to have one? [/QUOTE] Not to answer for **Maastricht** , but having been in a bit the same boat, I’d say that there’s a bit of a disconnect from not being a lover of kids in general to wanting to have your own kids. In fact, I’m forced to admit that I don’t know why I wanted to have kids. I wouldn’t be surprised if the basest possible answer – namely, to prove that I could – was the right one. Plus there’s good old-fashioned curiosity, the kind that leads people to mix a couple of chemicals together just to see what happens. Anyway, as to the OP – I guess I was intermittently a social outcast as a kid, but there were times when I really liked being a kid. I didn’t help that my family moved a lot. I would say, on balance, that I had a happy childhood – especially when I read about the horrendous childhoods other people had. Today I’m fairly indifferent to kids as a species, excepting my own. But beyond that, you have to allow for individuality in kids as much as you do in adults. Some kids are annoying, some vicious, some angels – same as for adults, in other words. So I guess I neither confirm nor deny the theory in the OP, seeing as I fall somewhere in the middle! ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-test-my-theory-about-people-who-dont-like-kids/376113/63 "2006-10-20T17:15:32Z")
Meh, I wasn’t a horrible outcast in school, but I was a bit of a social misfit. I don’t like children much now, but it’s mostly the noisenoisenoisenoise I can’t stand. The Grinch could be my long-lost brother. I do, however, adore my little sister and my neighbor’s kid, but I can get away from them when they start to get on my nerves. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-test-my-theory-about-people-who-dont-like-kids/376113.md?page=3)