To wonder why people without children post here?

[SomeoneStoleMyUsername]

How would you even find the place? I'd imagine they googled something and stumbled upon a thread and stuck around. Am I right?

[Only1scoop]

Op do you only read the parenting section??

Bore off

[zeezeek]

Vitalstatistix - err, it sounded better in my head....

[Showy]

Of course you're not unreasonable to wonder. Silly, yes. Unreasonable, no.

We're here to share. All of us. What any of us has to give neither begins nor ends with babies.

[Perfectlypurple]

I am not a mum but I am a parent to my dsd who I treat as if she was mine. Am I allowed here? This type of thread comes up often.

I came on here when aibu was mentioned on another forum. I then clicked on active and stayed.

[AcrossthePond55]

Because I'm an old besom who raised perfect children and I figured all those inept mums out there could benefit from my expert childrearing advice!

Seriously, I was googling for an answer to something and an AIBU thread was in the results. Highly entertained AND I actually found my answer!

MN is full of fun and wisdom for any one with a sense of humour and a sense of compassion for her fellow women (fellow women, is that an oxymoron?). Actually, compassion for anyone, really.

[HoVis2001]

I stumbled across Mumsnet after a blog post on the Vagenda about AIBU. The writer described it as a wonderful place to get honest advice. So out of curiousity I came over and haven't left since.

I find people interesting and the fact that I am not yet a parent and many of the people on Mumsnet are doesn't stop me being able to relate to them and find their thoughts / reflections / conundrums interesting.

[RudeBarbandCustard]

I suggest the OP goes over to the Infertility and TTC boards and posts this question.

FWIW OP, I found this by googling advice on infertility. I stayed because I liked the chat. Last time I checked, parenthood wasn't a prerequisite for discussing The Walking Dead, or current affairs, or giant boils on your arse pretty much sums up all the threads I follow!

[Leela5]

Coz the people on here are hilarious and it makes me laugh!

YABU to post a question that implies we're not welcome.

[Disneylandkilledmychildhood]

I would have been a mum posting here had it not been for my two miscarriages, which is how I found the site when googling for advice. Hth your ponderings OP.

[RudeBarbandCustard]

for you Disney

I once saw red when I started a thread in AIBU (I know, I know, my own fault!) about a MIL thing, and one poster actually said:

"Hang on, you say you don't have DCs? What are you doing on Mumsnet then?".

Needless to say, I gave it to them with both barrels for that comment.

[AlleyCat11]

I like Mumsnet. I haven't got kids. But I'm interested in other people, besides myself - that's men, women & children. I think MN is great for learning about different points view, things I haven't experienced & good advice when I need it. I consider it a forum for people in general, not mums only. I've never really thought about the name...

[OraProNobis]

Grown up DS. Unable to work because of meds I take due to a surgical mishap. Visit MN during breaks from ebaying etc.

Shall I fuck off to Fucksville where the Fuck Tree grows?

[ChippingInAutumnLover]

Pipbin Wed 05-Nov-14 20:23:41 Does someone get paid to ask this question every three months?


No Pipbin, don't be stupid.



It's more like weekly!



Maybe we should just ask one of the threads to be stickied. Or for windup merchants to be tarred and feathered banned. Love how the OPs seldom come back.


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Trills Wed 05-Nov-14 20:49:51 If it's not obvious to you why someone without children would want to spend time here then you've been reading the wrong threads

[chrome100]

I have no kids. I have been on MN for 7 years. I found it because I googled something about bilingualism and it led me here.

I have stayed because the conversations are (mostly) intelligent, witty and interesting. Although I have no desire to have kids, I like children and am interested in education. I'm also a brownie leader.

There are huge swathes of the board where kids are not even mentioned or, if they are, are incidental.

[DisgraceToTheYChromosome]

I like the kindness. It makes up for a lot of my childhood.

And the swearing is truly magnificent.

[Darkandstormynight]

If I were ttc, I would think it an excellent place for mothers-to-be. I have one dc, and to be honest I never looked on a parenting website pre-kids...but if I would have I would have learned an awful lot.

[Whiskwarrior]

To paraphrase Billie Piper:

Because they want to!

[BigPawsBrown]

I deliberately came here because I enjoyed the mumsnet book. I don't have any children and DP and I don't want any either.

I don't know of another forum where there are quite this many educated, intelligent, funny women. I post on all sorts of stuff - relationships, chat, health. You don't have to have children to have things in common with women.

[flowerbombVR]

I came across Mumsnet after my Mother passed away!
We all definitely have or had Mums....

[lurkerspeaks]

My friend who has DC directed me to AIBU as I frequent other internet sites related to my hobby.

I've become a bit on MN addict as the chat is wideranging and intelligent.

Maybe I should leave though as I'm not a parent?

[lurkerspeaks]

Oh and I got temporarily banned for ravelry the knitting website for swearing n their forums, so I find it refreshingly open and adult here.

Shit fuck hell damn, just 'cos I can!

[StackladysMorphicResonator]

I suggest the OP goes over to the Infertility and TTC boards and posts this question.

^^This.

ODFOD.

[FurryDogMother]

Because it gives some of us an insight into a world we can never experience (for various reasons). Same reason I watch OBEM, or Supernanny - I'm curious. Also, as many people have said above, because it's not all about children or parenting. I think, ironically enough, that I found the place after it was mentioned in the Mail Online a few years ago, and found myself reading an 'energetic' thread in AIBU - I stayed because it was amusing, and interesting and because I damn well could.

[Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost]

Oh what a clique remark o.p. Yes you are being unreasonable in a major fuckin way.
Please do not go on the conceptions thread were lots of women are struggling with infertility and say that. Just hope they don't come across this thread. As you will hurt and upset a lot of women.

[ZingOfSeven]

usualsuspect

shall I fuck off?

yes Nooooooo