I have no family. Forget that I see my parents often, that I live with my wife (and our cat), and that I talk with and see a few of my cousins on a semi-regular basis. The message I constantly get from society is that I haven’t started building my…
Just as people raised without religion don’t have to consider themselves atheist until confronted by religious people, I didn’t have to consider myself childfree until my friends started procreating. I’m not sure if it’s only because that’s when I had to look at like-minded online groups to get my bearings, but…
The newest spate of articles addressing the childfree have seemed oddly focused on the term “selfish”. This is coming from all sides, it seems. There are pieces written both as external decrees of judgment as well as internal reflections. As someone who is childfree I do hear the term being thrown around a lot,…
