Small yellow rain boots stand beside a leafy plant in a terracotta pot on pale green ground.

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Proverb

Who has no children does not know what life is.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

This proverb says that raising kids teaches you something about life that nothing else can. It's a claim about experience: without children, the speaker suggests, you're missing a whole layer of understanding. It's a sweeping and rather absolute view, and it's presented as folk wisdom rather than as fact.

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