What are your unpopular opinions that most mumsnetters don’t agree with?

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Curious to know what opinions you see constantly on mumsnet that you think “Am I the only person that disagrees with that!?”

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I agree they should but as I’ve said people need to be aware and prepared that there is a possibility that contraception may fail. If you don’t want the possibility (however small the risk) that you may get pregnant don’t voluntarily have sex

That just because DC turn 16 or 18 they magically overnight have the maturity to make really big decisions by themselves and you shouldn't get involved because they are 'adults' and it's 'their' decision.

Bonkers.

Both.
But a lot depends on the type (size) of dog, whereas almost all cats are lovely 😁

Oh, my other one is that I think that if grandparents do not want to provide childcare, that is fine, IF they then don't expect that their kids provide elderly care. It's unfair for grandparents to swan around not helping out when they are in their sixties, and then turn around and expect help when they're in their eighties. By then, the kids that they wouldn't help deserve a break, just as they did when they wouldn't help out with the grandkids.

Absolutely. Making women have babies they don’t want because they’ve had a contraceptive accident is a cracking idea. It’s great for the resulting children too - I’ve heard kids have a brilliant time being raised by parents that didn’t want them…

Also, cats are infinitely superior to dogs. You have to earn a cat's love. Dogs are mostly very undiscriminating (I have known a couple of exceptions to this)

I couldn’t care less about climate change.

I couldn’t care less if people want private education for their children…it’s their money, they can spend it how they wish.

Same with private health care, If I want/need to access it, I will.

Child free by choice, I haven’t missed out ‘big time!’ I just need to look around me or read on here and KNOW it was NEVER going to be for me!! (Mind you, I always knew, from as far back as I can remember, it was never for me)

That posters posts are nonsense. You're either pro-choice or you're not.

That at 16 you are an adult... a young one that may make mistakes and need help/guidance at times yes but an adult no the less and those are your rights and mistakes to make and its HOW you learn to grown into an adult. Until they have fully launched successfully it good to be available and also in the world they may need help with bureaucratic red tape (like a guarantor etc... if you can afford it). However at 16 you can move out, make your own choices, have partners/relationships and even have children, have a job and do normal adult things on going if you choose too and its no longer your parents job to wipe your arse or tell you off for not doing what THEY wanted you too.

In the same vein living at your parents (not your 'home' your parents home, you where suppose to grow up not remain a self appointed dependent forever) thoughout your 20s and later (shy of a short term emergency or being severely disabled and needing care) is a failure to launch. It is not normal, health or something to be proud of. If you love and respect your parents then don't continue to lazily lay all your emotional and financial weight on them like a burden and 'I need to save a deposit for a house' because you think you are entitled to live off others and get an easy ride to home ownership is a pathetic excuse. Parents that allow it are failing the children.

Strange family co-dependencies like the above (parents refusing to let kids grow up or adult children living off parents like parasites) are bloody weird and stunt the growth of the parties involved.

Same all around. I also am not pro 'Palestine' (it doesn't exist, it isn't really a country) I am sorry for the people being killed, but it isn't all Israel's fault, and the pro-Palestine ideology is a very toxic one.

Are you ok? It’s a bit early to have had a drink…

This is absolute nonsense.

This is a really stupid suggestion.

I don’t quite understand the logic of ‘all unborn lives are precious! oh but if it’s rape or an abusive relationship then it’s okay to get an abortion’ why is the life of that unborn foetus more disposable than a foetus at the exact same gestation that was conceived under different circumstances? If you are ‘pro-life’ then that would surely apply to all unborn ‘babies’?

Exactly. There’s been conflict in these areas since biblical times. I am on neither one side or the other. People will STILL be talking about wars in this region 100 years from now…

All the fawning and fangirling over 'glinner' is nauseating.

Well said

I agree. I'm pro choice but I think if you are pro life then it should be for all pregnancies...if you are pro life but think if a woman has been raped she should be able to get an abortion then what it sounds like to me is that you don't actually care about the unborn, you care about punishing and judging women who choose to have sex.

Who will arbitrate on the degree of voluntariness? What if the condom broke? How do you prove it? How do you stop people lying in order to get the abortion they need? Why are you so weirdly gatekeep-y about other people's bodies?

Gentle parenting is absolutely brilliant and in the best interests of many (although not all, children). Authoritarian parenting will likely affect the mental health of children and the future parent / child relationship. Living in London with kids is absolutely brilliant and the suburbs and countryside is extremely dull.

With the kids name things I always think it more the types of name so if you have a Victoria and a Theodore, naming a a third child Lexie-May would seem somewhat Disingenuous

I don't think you understand what Pro choice means
It means women have the right to choose wether to continue or not with a pregnancy whatever the circumstances
Not just in certain circumstances.

It is perfectly fine to expect kids to behave in public and to an extent be 'seen and not heard' (I don't mean be totally silent, but have indoor voices) 'You're entitled to a childfree life not a childfree world' is all too often uttered by people who don't care that their kids are being absolute brats in public: also, a lot of people who have children don't like other people's poorly behaved ones. Oh, and people are perfectly entitled to childfree weddings, as long as they don't put pressure on people who then decline.

Disneyland is tacky and for people with no imagination.

It doesn't matter what way round you hang your toilet roll.

Big salads aren't actually salads if they're huge plates of cold meat, potatoes (or other carb) and vegetables.