![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/dolly-parton-reveals-the-poignant-reason-she-never-had-children-with-husband-of-57-years/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1_37th-Annual-Rock-Roll-Hall-Of-Fame-Induction-Ceremony-Inside.jpg&description=Country singer Dolly Parton has revealed she's "almost glad" she never had children as she shares the joint decision she made with her long-term husband Carl Dean Dolly Parton has admitted the real reason why she and long-time husband Carl Dean haven't had children, despite being married since 1966. The country singer explained that she's "almost glad she never had children" and reflected on the progress of kids in today's current political climate, sharing that "we're not making any progress." She said: "It seems like we're not making any progress, mostly because nobody's trying. Nobody's willing to listen to anybody else. Everybody already knows everything. You're going to teach your children the same thing, whether it's right or wrong," she added, before admitting that she already "worries herself to death" about her young relatives. For all the latest on news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the USA, go to The Mirror US. "Everything is out there. Kids know everything, they see everything, they hear everything. We have to discuss stuff," Dolly told Mojo magazine. 'I know this sounds like a selfish, awful thing to say, but I'm almost glad I never had children. I worry myself to death about my little nieces and nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews.' Reflecting on her and her husband's decision to remain child-free, she said: "My husband and I, we just think of ourselves as each other's child. He's my only child, and I'm his only child.' Dolly has previously addressed not having children in the past, telling Oprah in 2020 that she believes it was God' will and it allowed her to set up her book-gifting initiative for young children, called Imagination Library. She told the host at the time: "I didn't have children because I believed that God didn't mean for me to have kids so everybody's kids could be mine, so I could do things like Imagination Library. 'If I hadn't had the freedom to work, I wouldn't have done all the things I've done. I wouldn't be in a posi){kind=link}
Country singer Dolly Parton has revealed she’s “almost glad” she never had children as she shares the joint decision she made with her long-term husband Carl Dean
Dolly Parton has admitted the real reason why she and long-time husband Carl Dean haven’t had children, despite being married since 1966.
The country singer explained that she’s “almost glad she never had children” and reflected on the progress of kids in today’s current political climate, sharing that “we’re not making any progress.” She said: “It seems like we’re not making any progress, mostly because nobody’s trying. Nobody’s willing to listen to anybody else. Everybody already knows everything. You’re going to teach your children the same thing, whether it’s right or wrong,” she added, before admitting that she already “worries herself to death” about her young relatives.
For all the latest on news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the USA, go to The Mirror US.
“Everything is out there. Kids know everything, they see everything, they hear everything. We have to discuss stuff,” Dolly told Mojo magazine. “I know this sounds like a selfish, awful thing to say, but I’m almost glad I never had children. I worry myself to death about my little nieces and nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews.”