Who do these people think they are?

When they say things like that, I just brush it off as emotional venting. Of course most of them don't really mean that they hate their kids. They're as stressed as you are--just for other reasons. What really gets me though is that trash reproduces so easily and loving, caring people have such a hard time conceiving. It's my evolutionary trash theory: eventually the world is going to be overrun by trash because they reproduce at such a higher rate than the normal contributers to society. :) Just take a deep breath and realize that your time will come too, and you're a better person for being able to move on from ignorant comments.