To think it's unacceptable to say you don't like children?

I like my children, my nieces and nephews. A few of my friend’s kids are tolerable. Can’t stand the rest.

it all comes down to parenting of said children (or lack thereof)

Again, so you think someone who has the opinion ‘I hate people with Down’s Syndrome’ ‘I hate white people’ ‘Inhate blonds’ for example, should be allowed to express that as freely as they want?

Again, you can have opinions but voicing those opinions isn’t always acceptable.

Right, so opinions only.

That's it. Just opinions.

Why do you think certain opinions should not be allowed?

Isn't that the whole point of the thread? Whether or not it's acceptable to dislike a whole group of people based on age.

Do you really have to ask this???!!! Wtaf,

I mean this is simply not true.

Huge chunks of society hate women.

Some hate gay people, some hate the Jewish or the Muslims or they hate based on skin colour.

Millions and millions of Trump supporters hate immigrants, without seeing the obvious irony that they are themselves incomers.

Of course a lot of people don't like other people's children. Especially if they are badly behaved, noisy, messy. Especially these days where like in this thread we are told oh you meanie, they're just little people. Then on the other hand we're told excuse their behaviour and the permissive oarents that foster it because they're not adult people.

We find we are having more and more occasions like meals out or even just travel ruined by poorly behaved kids especially with their noisy electronics, so no wonder people's tolerance is waning.

Read any of the multiple threads about dogs in cafes and within a couple of pages there will be posters saying children should be banned

People who say this on a parenting site are especially twatty, OP.

What threads are you referencing on MN, or any internet forum where there is support for children as a demographic, being banned from shops or public transport?

So ‘I don’t like people with ginger hair, I don’t like white people, I don’t like people with cerebral palsy’ - these are all acceptable to things to say out loud?

It’s okay to have an opinion, sometimes it’s not okay to verbalise it to others.

It doesn't matter.

People are allowed to have their opinions about anything and any group.

It's not necessarily inaccurate because the OP didn't say anything about hating children, just not liking them.

That doesn't mean hating anyone or any group. just saying 'I don't like' as a group.

But that applies to most things that people say they don't like. They don't like hospitals, or schools, or cats, or cars or cheese. They haven't experienced all the hospitals or cheese because there are millions of variations.

So there's a possibility there might be a hospital, school, cat or cheese that they would like.

But people don't have to experience all variations of something to be able to say they don't like something. I don't like olives. I've tried loads of olives over the years and never liked any. I've had olive-fans tell me over the last 30 years that I just hadn't had the 'right' olives and if I did, i'd love them. I didn't and don't. In many countries and different situations. I don't like olives.

People are entitled to opinions and feelings and life experiences that other people find doesn't align with their opinions and life experiences.

And that should be okay.

No opinion should be unacceptable.

*Millican

I don’t like spiders
I don’t like mice
I don’t like men
I don’t like bullies
I don’t like narcissists
I don’t like rude arrogant people
we all have our people
I do like children though

Go on a dog thread. There’ll be more comments about hating children than anything to do with dogs!

"I can't stand bloody annoying old biddies, they should be banned from shops and public transport" would get me hung out to dry but replace old biddies with an equally derogatory term for children and many would consider it fine. OP you're right.

Children are in a vulnerable, underprivileged position in society though. It's punching down. It's like saying "I don't like disabled people" maybe keep that opinion to yourself.

It's also inaccurate - you can't hate every person who is young, they're all completely different

well, Ive never met a child I liked so far....maybe there is one out there I would like but I probably will never meet them!
(TBH I didnt even like them when I was one!😄).

You’re right. Reminds me of Sarah Milligan’s line “My husband and I can’t have children, because we hate them”.

When people are rude enough to ask me why I don't have children I think it's a perfectly acceptable response.

I think when people say they hate kids, what they actually mean is that they hate DEALING with kids.

I could say I hate cyclists. I don't.

I hate coming up behind them on the road and the worry that they might fall or swerve without warning. When I'm not having to drive around them, I have no feelings regarding them at all.

But I have a child and I don’t like children either.
Apart from my own, he is amazing 😂

I find myself irritated by those children who are perhaps around 8-10 years old and 'mature beyond their years'. Join in adult conversations/say things only grown ups would say.
I don't have any specific examples right now, but political/social/relationship comments that they couldn't possibly know anything about and are presumably just repeating what they've heard adults say.
Oh and some of the horrible kids where I live that swear at you, throw stones at passing cars etc .
Blame the parents!! Etc, but I'm sure many of them pick things up from school/internet and it must be hard for parents to control everything.

I've never had children. But if I had, I would have homeschooled them and taken them far away from where I live.

I have children but what brought me to mumsnet originally was the property forum. I also enjoy the hiking chats, savings and money chats, and many others that aren't about children at all. You know if you google a question about any topic, if often links to a mumsnet thread about it, I don't have the app.
I imagine many on here don't have children, or if they do they are here for other reasons.

What are you going to do if you end up stuck in a care home when you’re older? Surrounded by other biddies? Forced to play bingo with them on Thursday afternoons? You’ll be buggered then 😂

I think it’s become cool with the younger generation to announce they hate children.

Although saying that, I had an older friend who told me they hate kids when I had just given birth. It was done in a very pointed and condescending way. We no longer talk.
It’s a weird thing to say to people I think. I don’t like cats but I never admit that to my friends and neighbours who owns cats, why would I? It’s to be antagonistic for the sake of it.