More than 3,400 older Americans have shared their financial and other regrets with Business Insider. Though many more mothers shared their parenting regrets than fathers, both shared very similar parenting regrets. All of them stressed that despite having some financial or professional regrets, they love their children and had few regrets about how they raised them. BI identified five common financial parenting regrets and interviewed seven parents. Related storiesSome said they regretted being stay-at-home parentsThe Pew Research Center found in 2023 that about four in five stay-at-home parents were women.

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