# Parents, are you proud of your child/children?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-are-you-proud-of-your-child-children/784897>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 21, 2017, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-are-you-proud-of-your-child-children/784897 "2017-04-21T04:26:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-are-you-proud-of-your-child-children/784897/61 "2017-04-25T21:37:50Z")

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> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#):
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> People tend to biased towards anything they create. So why would parents be different?
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> Have you never produced something that involved a lot of hard work, stress, and personal inconvenience, and you ended up being really proud of that something? Maybe you painted your home, started a vegetable garden, or published a piece of writing. Were you not proud of what you created?
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> Raising kids is difficult, especially if you’re trying your best to do it right. When that hard work pays off in the form of a well-adjusted person who contributes to society, then it is quite reasonable to take pride in that.
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> Do you disagree with this?

I never have had the slightest feeling that my child was “my creation”. As if she was a novel I wrote, or a table I refinished or something. Very weird idea. I am proud of my daughter because she’s a great human being and she’s a member of my family. I’m also proud of my husband, my dad, and other people whose existence I had no physical part in.

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