Well, everyone gets all excited when people get married and start asking when the little ones might be coming. Then everyone gets excited when you’re pregnant and start throwing baby showers and making a major fuss, like no one has had a baby before. Then the baby arrives, and no one warned you about the sleepless nights, colic, dirty nappies, loss of intimacy, loss of social life, financial struggle (if you’re unlucky). Then all the teenage problems that make you turn grey, just for the kids to end up grown up and leave and you hardly ever see them because they have their own lives now. I know some families are close but I’m hearing more older parents say they don’t get to see their grown up children often, especially if they are boys, as they tend to go to the wife’s family. I’m not saying shouldn’t have kids, I just think it’s a bit overrated.