too worry that i've brought too children (ds8 dd5months) into a world full of .......

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unemployment, drink and drugs and everything else I see going on around us?

And bad spelling?

and annoying pedants?

It's always been a hard life.

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No different to the rest of us. Every generation has its problems

I try not to think too much about what my kids lives will be like when they are my age!!

Too to two

Different, see?

Yep, but in my defence I have spent 40 years of my life trying to teach the difference between to, two and too!!

YABU - What is done is done. Just do the best job you can as a parent and I am sure it will all be fine.

God I hate the bloody spelling police on here ffs

Oh dear, back to school or netmums

I don't think she will either , its weird on here tonight

So long as they don't start on the drink and drugs until they're safely at University, I'm cool.

A lot of what is going on these day reminds me of the 80s, when I was a teen and jobs were hard to come by. Then the whirligig of economics turned again, unemployment fell and we could all afford decent drink and drugs once again :)

and there were some cracking drugs in the boom years

Not to mention all the pre-Aids sex.

OP you are right in a way, but yes there has always been bad.
Did the Victorians feel bad bringing children into a world of poverty and disease, knowing they would end up (as my grandmother did, 'in service' and an orphan at 13 yo.No social services to provide for her)

I worry about drink and drugs. (not for myself, I do neither)
I worry that my DCs will have to worry about HIV.
I worry they'll never get jobs or a house.
I worry that my DD will be 14 and pregnant (not if I can help it)

When my DS was days old a woman camr to my door, collecting for charity, and said "Oh it's a shame to bring children into the world with all the wars"
Emm, thanks for that, missus.

I think this quote says it all...

?Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.?

... except that it was said by Socrates approx 2,500 years ago!