A Kenyan woman, Atieno, has revealed that she doesn’t want children because being a firstborn and raising her siblings left her scarred.
“I was telling my mum this morning that being a first born destroyed me….waaah haelewi. Yeye anaona alinifunza kazi…and now I can stand for myself, which is true, but I don’t desire things like having kids after raising my siblings,” she wrote on X at the weekend.
“Still early, but maybe we can laugh about it. Imagine changing kids nappies at age 7 or 8? Feeding a 6 month year old baby uji when you that young Setting examples everywhere…. We are so scarred.
“As an adult, everyone finds you strict… parented at 10, and you don’t know how else to interact with anyone. You make decisions like a parent, you don’t spend on yourself enough coz there are people to look after too… People pleasing is naturally you.”
