Regrets
For a while, Dolly has stated that she should feel regret for not having children. In an interview with ABC News, Dolly says, “I used to think I should regret it. Early on, when my husband and I were dating, and then when we got married, we just assumed we would have kids. We weren’t doing anything to stop it. In fact, we thought maybe we would. We even had names if we did, but it didn’t turn out that way.”
Regrets
Reasons Why
Let’s stick to that last fact for a minute. Why doesn’t Dolly want children? “I was starting my menopause and feeling guilty about my success. Maybe I was thinking that I’d been selfish not to have had children.” Additionally she that it was not in God’s plan for her to have children. Parton also told ABS News that “God didn’t mean for me to have kids so everybody’s kids could be mine. My younger brothers and sisters lived with me and Carl for many years — and we’re very close to our nieces and nephews.”
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