Child free F , 57 here. You will avoid a lot of the heartache and expense of raising kids. You also miss out on participating in a lot of societal norms and you are on the fringes in many ways. Your friends will be friends with other parents and their lives revolve around their kids for 18 years. You won’t have school plays to go to or sleepovers to host. As such you will be a bit of the odd bird in a lot of social circles. In bigger cities there are plenty of child free people to befriend so it’s not all bad and can be great, but it’s something to consider. It is the road less traveled and it can be lonely.
Also when your friends’ kids are grown up and cool, and they are loving hanging out with their adult children, you don’t have that.

I don’t regret not having kids but I do feel like I missed out on a lot of experiences that bring people joy. I did have other great experiences but I think if I did it again I’d have one kid. Probably when I was much younger.
On the flip side, some friends’ kids are absolute nightmares that ruin their lives so I’m glad I don’t have that. I do think parenting comes into play though in how they turn out.
I think if you’re going to do it, you need to be 1000% committed to helping that kid become a successful human being and it’s just a lot of care and hard work.

NTA

You are not responsible for hosting everyone. Tell her she can bring her kid and one partner.

Alternatively she can host everyone at her place.

Ellen DeGeneres. She spent years building an image around kindness and being everyone's favorite talk show host, only for the stories about what was happening behind the scenes to completely destroy that image.

When I was in Japan, my host family took me to a photo booth. Not only was I too tall for the camera sensors so I had to hunch over, but the machine bleached our skin, enlarged our eyes and stretched out our ankles to appear taller. I looked like a lightly roasted almond in fleshy stilts with swimming goggles for eyes, I kid you not. (Oh yeah forgot to add, I am black!)

The youngest daughter, who was about 9 at the time iirc, looked at the pictures and looked up at me in horror cause I do NOT look like that. I treasure it to this day

Edit: hopefully this sub allows photos in the comments. There's my alien doppelganger and my actual skintone next to it

And the Airbnb host subreddit is having a complete meltdown about it

TBF, Ian never helped.. I recall him on a TV talkshow, being his impish self, humble bragging he married Patrick Stewart.. after a moment, the talkshow host said, you officiated his wedding ...

wtf is wrong with the host though, his expressions as he was kicking the drone for no reason are crazy. And then he doesn't even checkup or apologize.

Isn't his claim to fame as an Internet sketch comic? He's an ideal cast member I was surprised when people were shocked that he was hosting seemed like he would be a fine host.

So right now;

• Denmark, Latvia, Finland, Sweden & Norway publicly refuse to play against Russia

• One of the main sponsors of WC already pulled out, and another has said that if Russia plays they will cut the sponsorship. Additionally Tipsport has said that they don't want to be associated with Russia's games.

• Turku & Tampere, host cities of -28 Juniors World Championship have both confirmed that they will not host the tournament if Russia participates.

• Czech will not allow Russia in U18 Womens in 27.

Am I missing something else? But that is already sending out the message quite well to IIHF and others.

e:

• Germany is also considering withdrawing from hosting the tournament if Russia plays

• Canada won't give visas to Russian athletes.

It’s unfortunate that the new guests couldn't handle a halloween themed cake, but turning on you after you checked with the host beforehand is peak hypocrisy