To wonder why those who aren’t mums are on mumsnet?

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Not that I’m against it - I’m just curious really!

There's a lot of good stuff overall but what drew me initially was ttc and fertility threads as I am planning a family.

Years and years ago I got here when we were trying for a child. Then while we were going through fertility treatments. We're past that phase now, but I still keep coming back. I've had long periods of not being here, when all the mentions of life with kids have been too painful, but really it's quite a great place, regardless. I don't post on pregnancy or kids-related posts, but there's plenty that aren't geared up for just parents.

Thankfully I found mumsnet when my youngest girls were 15!

All the AP bollocks and not allowing your child to cry would have killed me.

Love it now.

There are a lot of topics not related to child rearing and a vast section on infertility so a bit insensitive to suggest people who are not yet parents should not read or post here. Some of us, like myself have grown up children and grandchildren and mumsnet was not around when we were raising children so it is interesting and helpful when looking after our grandkids.

It’s a great place to get impartial advice and a wide range of views. The people on the forums are generally well informed, willing to share their experiences, and can signpost other sources of support.

AIBU threads actually pop up in google searches frequently so it draws you in i suppose. This website also has a bit of a shit reputation on other websites like twitter as it’s assumed that posters here are hysterical, so you’d still see strange posts from here being screenshotted on other websites

I don’t have children so you wouldn’t find me posting or interested in child threads, but more about work conflicts or fashion, or literally anything aside from pregnancy/children etc?

It’s a decent way to get instant opinions from others in the UK on something anonymously- eg you wouldn’t really rant about work/partners/life etc on twitter or Instagram, so this can be a bit therapeutic I guess. As this has a heavy uk user base, you’ll probably find people that have been through similar things and can relate, even if you don’t have children

Just seen you were curious rather than criticising so apologies for calling you insensitive.

There's a search function and you are allowed to use it and that would provide you the answers as this thread is done to death.

My answer is that because I want to be. I find the site fun and informative and it passes the time when I'm meant to be working but have nothing to do

The FWR boards. Probably one of the best feminist forums in the world.

And the running threads. And AIBU.

It's the only UK based forum I know of with such a range of discussions where I can be anonymous (as opposed to Facebook groups, for example).

And any time I'm bored or avoiding work, there's something new to read on MN.

Given the OPs 22:06 update, this is the most ridiculous thread I have ever read.

Effectively its "why do people do what I did?". Absolutely moronic.

I am a mum but before I joined here I found that very often when I was looking for something unrelated to parenting mumsnet would come up in results. That’s what prompted me to join, rather than being a mum per se. I think most of the discussions I choose to
read on here aren’t about parenting

Came for the parenting advice, stayed for the brilliant, intelligent, gobby women. There’s loads of us. I like it here, I feel at home. There’s lots of awesome, smart and funny as fuck chicks discussing the issues of female life. Whether I have children is less and less relevant,

I’m a nanny, can’t have children of my own.

I just use the nanny board and AIBU.

I give and get a lot of useful advice.

You can't have read many threads then!

I don't see it as moronic to me it was obvious that the OP was asking in a "I signed up for this reason, what about you?" kind of way, rather than "why would non-mums be on Mumsnet?!?!"

No need to be so rude is there?

Why would this even cross your mind? It's not a school girls clique and the more people the better, as more diverse opinions. I'm a mother, but it's not relevant to 99.9 percent of the things I post and i could not care less if another poster is a parent or not. It literally wouldn't cross my mind.

I'm with @YorkieDorkie
Some consideration would be nice. We're not all lucky enough to be mums yet.

Busy forum not all about kids. I've never wanted kids and reading what I have on this forum has made me realise I def made the right choice

Because I can swear like a docker and nobody bats an eye.

Because I’m ttc and while I don’t post on the ttc boards I do lurk and I like other sections.

Because I found myself clicking on a lot of newspaper articles that were about threads on here and thought I may aswell see the information first hand.

Not this again. I'm tired of explaining existence on here.

I was thinking about ttc then decided no.

But it's a busy forum, mainly female.

You don't have to explain though.

How do you know the demographic that is posting here anyway?

There are men, women, transgender, child free, child full, and so on.

The forums can be interesting and the majority do not involve DCs or whatever.

I think back to the help given to people in toxic/abusive relationships and say "aye" that's good. For example.