To be pissed off with anti-child threads on a parenting forum?

[ItShouldHaveBeenJessMass]

I love Mumsnet. I love the diversity on here. However, lately I have seen more and more threads appearing (possibly from trolls) about how awful kids are, how the OP is so glad they are child-free, how they dont want kids etc, etc.

It's a parenting forum. I'm not suggesting for a minute that anyone should be excluded from any internet site, but the judgement of parents by non-parents on here is becoming more prolific by the day. You don't want kids? Cool. I hadn't planned on becoming a mother either, but here I am! I honestly don't care who joins MN, and I'm love learning about different viewpoints/lifestyles, but the anti-child crap? Why join in the first place?

AIBU?

YANBU the clue is in the name mumsnet...

Penisbeakergate just opened the floodgates as far as the goadiness though.

I think the anti child threads are more to let parents know that not everyone cares about your kid and to stop your kid being annoying when its being annoying because nobody cares about your kid but you.

Harsh but true.

Case in point from the creepy clown there!

empress. Were these three separate posts or all in one?!

Duck sex was popping up everywhere at one point. If a thread was getting too heated somebody would pop in with some interesting facts about drakes & their outrageous penises, and the measures ducks had developed to counter them.

The toaster ended up in Classics, and over the years there have been a few daring raids on HQ to locate the gin stash, the Big Red Button & just because somebody felt like leading one.

I had an argument about ice cream van music on a thread once. Turned out to be a zombie thread and it was 2am. Priorities.

Do you mean anti child threads from the child free?

What about anti child threads / comments from parents?

Sometimes, ways to have fun when childfree are even relevant to parents: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2757172-child-free-sunday-s

I read alot of AIBU and I think you're exaggerating, OP.

You say in your OP you're seeing 'more and more threads' about how awful kids are, but then go on to admit you're talking about a couple.

You've called out the 'plane thread'...what other threads are you referring to?