{"id":879520,"date":"2026-10-12T09:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T09:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/879520\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T09:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T09:34:08","slug":"carolyn-hax-mom-lands-final-blow-after-a-lifetime-of-disappointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/879520\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolyn Hax: Mom lands final blow after a lifetime of disappointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"WSVNFJP7ORGGLF5YSOYP3ZRNX4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Dear Carolyn: I\u2019m pretty sure my mom would have chosen to be child-free, if that concept existed in the 1970s when she had me. Instead, as a schoolteacher, she faced a lot of social and professional pressure to be a mom herself. Now that I\u2019ve been the ages she was when she raised me, I understand my childhood a lot better. She hated every part of raising me. She gave up a lot of personal freedom, financial security and much-needed introvert time (another concept that didn\u2019t exist back then). As someone who became child-free myself (no surprise why), I feel a lot of sympathy for her. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear Carolyn: I\u2019m pretty sure my mom would have chosen to be child-free, if that concept existed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-879520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}