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When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of just about anything. If you don't feel like going to a dinner party, you could say, 'My kid's sick. I can't make it.' Who's gonna argue with you?

— Kevin Nealon

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I don't particularly like children. That sounds awful, but I have nothing to say to them.

— Marie Helvin

I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.

— Jon Hamm

I love kids, but I have to be honest: I am that person at a dinner party who's a little relieved when the kids go to bed.

— Jonathan Slavin

I know plenty of people who don't have children. And I also get a lot of people who say, 'Thank you for speaking out; my family don't understand why I don't want kids.'

— Christina Hendricks

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

— Delia Ephron

I think the best thing that you can do with your kids is to talk to them like they're human beings, not like they're children and they don't know what they're doing.

— Constance Zimmer

It's hard to say no to your kid. It's hard for them to stomp off and not be happy with you for an hour.

— Martina McBride

While they are kids, my children must do as I say.

— Andrea Bocelli

✗Opposing Perspectives

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

— Charles de Lint

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

— Iain Duncan Smith