I used to want kids, then I had to have spinal fusion surgery and decided not to have kids. I have my bunnies and hobbies, they are my whole world, my whole reason for living. You only understand freedom without kids. You should get rid of your kids, you won’t regret it.

This is how you sound to me.

Note: I’m not advocating anyone getting rid of their kids. I love kids and I love their parents. That doesn’t mean I want any of my own. It’s really disrespectful to try and convince people who don’t want kids to have kids that they don’t want. It’s also horrible for the kids to not be wanted.

Admittedly, you only really get the craving for heroin or crack after, not before...

You only get the feelies after the child, not before. So you won't regret it.

Really? For real real? Wow. Consider me converted, then. I'm off to go make a life-altering, irreversible decision that will completely nuke my finances and my lifestyle and my peace of mind and everything I've ever dreamed of doing, because the feelies will come afterwards and I sure as hell won't regret it. Right? Right?

I used to not want kids. I still don't, but I used to too

This comment was reasonable up until the last sentence two sentences. Not everyone is like you.

I regret not getting sterilized earlier.

There's a ton of people out there who regret having children. Yours is but one opinion.

You sound like the people who insist that you won't see the benefits of marriage until you take the plunge, meanwhile they're divorced or on the verge of.

Yeah but if people follow your advice and they’re not digging being a parent, there’s no take backsies

literally hop on down to r/regretfulparents on reddit and type out whst you just typed out .... come back with results ...

(THIS is gonna be gooood 🍿🤭)

The report is taken at face value: the attachment is real, it arrived after the child rather than before, and it is not being dismissed as self-deception. The problem is what it can establish. The claim that the feeling arrives afterwards is unfalsifiable in the present, because counter-evidence can be attributed to not having had the child yet, and it can only be refuted by someone who dies old without having changed their mind. The population making the claim is also selected: the people who changed their minds are visible, and those who did not are underrepresented, their consistency having removed them from the reproductive pool. Parents who made an irreversible decision have a reason to validate it. The biological version, that the feeling will override the philosophy, argues for the antinatalist position rather than against it.

Sounds like mental illness.