‘I sometimes wonder what my life would have been like if I didn’t have kids’

“I thought I’d find it fulfilling and that I’d be a good parent. I even considered having five children at one stage. But after my first. I realised it was nothing like what I expected”. Preferring to remain anonymous, this mother of two is part of an online group of parents dedicated to sharing their feelings about how parenthood wasn’t what they expected. She’s part of a small but significant proportion of mothers and fathers...