Is It Okay To Pressure Your Kids For Grandkids? | Loose Women

[@alexandrarohla1531]

It's never OK to pressure our children to give us grandchildren

[@blondie4]

No. Parents do not own their children and should allow them to live their lives.

[@patm2480]

No we are all entitled to make our own choices there’s enough misery in the world without pressing others to have children they don’t want.

[@mr.balloffur]

No, let them live their lives.

[@tonypettigrew4124]

Have a child when YOU are ready for a child have a child when YOU want a child thats it FULL stop! Enough unwanted children in the world and no child should be a mistake made because of pressure from anybody else...

[@teoleno4019]

Most people around me do not want kids. And we are in our 30s, 40s.

[@leaveittothediva]

Neither of my grown up children are the least bit interested in having children. And tbh, I couldn't give a monkeys whether they do or not, all I know is, I'm not interested in looking after them if they do.....

[@0773heidi]

No I’ve already told my children there’s no need to have them x

[@JamesJoel-hr4ff]

Nice speech. Would love to ask you a question if you don't mind?

[@0773heidi]

@James Joel what’s that x

[@hearmeoutbro]

I said at 13 I will never want children. I said at 16 I will never want children. I said at 19 I will never want children. I said at 21 I will never want children. I said at 25 I will never want children. I said at 30 I will never want children. I’m 31 and I still will never want children. And yet there are still people that tell me, “you’ll change your mind.”

[@zzzbbbooo]

I'm sure there are plenty of children out there who don't have grandparents in their lives for whatever reason who would love your involvement as would their parents. Leave your own children to live their lives as they want.

[@ladyjustice1474]

My "mom" told me from the time I was little right up until i got married I'd be a terrible mom. After i was married she started looking at like a walking incubator, not so subtley demanding grandbabies. I made a choice not to have any for a veriaty of reasons.

[@mrstiggywinkle]

Have a child because you think they’ll have a lovely life. Thats the only reason. Don’t have them to make your life better or ANYONE else’s!!

[@hearmeoutbro]

No, it’s abuse. You choose to have your kids and they don’t owe you anything in return for that. You don’t own your children and they should live their lives the way they want to, not the way you want them to.

[@coulterry67]

My parents were a generation older than my friend’s parents due to my Dad having been married before. His daughter from that marriage chose not to have children and he was 50 and my Mum 40 when I was born. I had my child when my Dad was 77, he died when he was 80. My brother had a daughter 5 years after me so only Mum was around. His daughter had a child 3 years ago, unfortunately my brother had passed away 3 years before and her Mum passed away a month after the child had been born prematurely, unable to meet due to illness and Covid. My son is now 42 and not planning children any time soon so unless things change I don’t anticipate being a Grandma at all or a really old one like my own Grandmother was. I’ve never been that maternal so it doesn’t bother me, only that it will be sad if my family line stops with my son and of course him missing the joy that having his own child brings. I would never even have that conversation with him, he’s not here to provide me with grandchildren, I want him living his own life and doing what makes him happy. I was content to marry and have a child, he has had the freedom to travel and see the world

[@annahugman8412]

No. Unless they are going to be raising the grandchild themselves, getting up to feed them every 3 hours, changing them, being there 24/7 it’s not their decision. What they want is a couple of hours a couple of times a week with a baby and that’s easy for them, it’s incredibly selfish to not think about the parents who are actually raising the child, and what they want in life. I’m 25 and my mother and my boyfriend’s mother has been asking for a grandchild for the past 5 years. Unless she wants to raise the child for me, it’s not up to her.

[@lisakemp7352]

In one word NO

[@RichardGorell683]

Hi Lisa

[@Kellyhettinga77]

Hey 👋👋 Can I ask you a question??

[@justjulzz5940]

No.

[@doyoumind.atall.stopspying5572]

No it's not

[@sugarbabylove1000]

Only if they are planning to have kids and are unaware of the physical problems that come if you wait too long. BUT advice not pressure.

[@ArleneHeer-w7q]

NO! Never.

[@RTG1031]

No, it's selfish

[@itsnothinglong1]

How come there is no mention of Philip now

[@Stargazer3131]

They all part of ITV daytime, they want to gloss over this and keep there jobs!🥴😠

[@BeaSerenaButtercup]

It’s about time ITV Daytime undergoes a revamp!

[@leobunny1561]

Biology and economy is very unbalanced. The UK is not child friendly.😮

[@amyclarke41]

isn't their problem but I don't have that thank god ax

[@panimengropoints9333]

Jack Whitehall's type of family is probably all about passing on the family name and inheritance. That's where the pressure probably comes from.

[@sharonellitson4231]

No

[@praveeshachapman677]

Why does loose women still exist

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

Is it wise you are talking about children considering the lack of safeguarding at ITV?

[@Stargazer3131]

BINGO!🎉💯

[@faystalker9851]

Yes nice for parents to meet kids my mum met hers by my dad didn't meet them

[@user-fk7sk9ut1t]

Yes it is, as a child we need to understand our parents do know better a lot of times, 20-40 years more lived yet we think we always know better. Kids nowadays shove a dog on the child shaped hole in their heart.

[@bleudiamondbleu]

A lot of people don’t have a “child shaped hole in their heart”. YOU need to understand that.

[@jadehomelife]

I don't have kids because they're a waste of time and money and it's selfish to bring a child into this world for any other reason than because someone wants them I don't have dogs for the same reasons and no one had the right to make those kind of physical mental and emotional demands of someone else's body