I have to pretend to hate children

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…
Childfree: Why “Selfish” is the wrong issue to raise.

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,…