[cursuve]

Wait... So because I chose a life of not struggling to raise a child and I love my dog; I'm pathetic? What a warped-ass world-view. Maybe I just have no desire to have kids and am enjoying the life not having children warrants me - including pathetically loving my dog. Eff off with your judgements of what I chose the path of my life to be. And, hey, godspeed on your struggle-bus. Apparently it warrants you some entitlements and status, or something...

[fabifabulous]

Seeing pets as a replacement for kids is pathetic. I don‘t hold owning a pet against people. They should just have a healthy relationship with them.

[estearum]

Who said a pet is "a replacement" for kids? What could that even possibly mean?

[wormpilled]

>Wait... So because I chose a life of not struggling to raise a child and I love my dog; I'm pathetic?

It's brutal to say such things and certainly to hear them, but objectively, yes.

[estearum]

This is one of those cases where the people who are most assertive about Doing X (in this case X = having kids) are specifically the types of people you do not want Doing X.

Just unbelievable levels of self-aggrandizement and scorn for your fellow humans in this comment. It is honestly a shame that you could propagate this forward another generation.

Having kids is good. Calling people "pathetic" for not wanting to or not feeling like they would succeed at it is bad and counterproductive.