Posted 4th May 2014 3948

I hate how people say to parents who have the audacity to complain a bit about the challenges of parenthood, “You signed up for this! No one FORCED you to become a parent!!!” and everyone agrees with them like the parent(s) have no right to complain or ask for a single iota of sympathy.

But the moment someone says to a soldier (or really, almost anyone in any other profession), “You signed up for this! No one FORCED you to join the military!” everyone jumps on them like they’re a terrible, horrible person. As if being a parent is the only “job” that is undeserving of empathy.

Obviously, joining the military has very grave risks to it and being a parent is nothing at all like being a soldier, but that people use the fact that people CHOSE to become parents against them while never suggesting that the element of CHOICE means that anyone else who complains about their jobs shouldn’t since they *chose* it just makes it feel like such a double standard.

I wish everyone would just accept that people by and large choose what they believed to be the best path in life for them, and offering a bit of sympathy when things are hard isn’t going to hurt anyone.

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