But "I chose to have children and now I wish I hadn't" is trickier.
Or "I was coerced into having children, and now I wish I hadn't given in". We don't make a distinction between mothers by force or coercion and mothers by choice - once you're a mother, you are responsible - and moreover, responsible for making sure that the child never ever knows that you feel any sense of loss in parenting them.
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Or "I was coerced into having children, and now I wish I hadn't given in". We don't make a distinction between mothers by force or coercion and mothers by choice - once you're a mother, you are responsible - and moreover, responsible for making sure that the child never ever knows that you feel any sense of loss in parenting them.