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Let's face it, when a woman who is childfree by choice hears that her girlfriend is "in the family way," it's not uncommon to have mixed feelings. Of course, she wants to be happy for her friend and hopeful that she can be supportive throughout this big life change, but there's also the realization that her friend's life is permanently altered. Read More
Great article!
Thanks for sharing it with us!
Best, Irene
"Childfree"?
Are we plugging a new word here? What about "childstarved"? Why not settle for the traditional "childless"? In any case, those without children, whether voluntary or not, are missing life's greatest experience. How sad.
Excuse me?
Life's greatest experience according to who?
"Childfree"?
I prefer the term "childfree" because it makes it clear that I'm free of something that I don't want. The word "childless" has a negative connotation. I would hate to be homeless or jobless. I'm not sad. Not everybody thinks children are life's greatest experience. You're entitled to your opinion.
Jake, you're aware that
Jake, you're aware that people are different and hence have different goals and pleasures, right? My greatest pleasure would be to visit every nation on Earth, not squeezing out a kid. Having a child would ROB me of my greatest future experience! It is my greatest nightmare. There is not one positive I can find for ME having a kid. Children are a blessing for lots of people, but they are a curse for others.
Like someone else mentioned, the term "childless" has a negative connotation - like we're missing out on something that we want. We're not. "Childfree" illustrates the freedom that we have from children and all the problems that come with them.
And "childstarved" has a significant cannibalistic ring to it. We childfree people don't eat kids.
You do realise you are
You do realise you are commenting on a blog dedicated to people that for the most part CHOOSE to not have children? The term 'childfree' does describe us. Quite alot of us are fine with being aunts and uncles, but not parents. It takes a butt to cover every seat in the world.
I have a child, and I take no
I have a child, and I take no offense at the term "childfree," which isn't really a new term, by the way. I've been hearing it for around a decade.
grandchildren
I know several women who go from looking after their kids to looking after and babysitting their grand-kids. Then there is still a sense of separation between me and them.
And as for "missing life's greatest experience" as the poster wrote upthread - my answer is that lots of parents are still unhappy anyways!
jake how dare you decide
jake how dare you decide whats important to me. my life does not go according to your life. im happy if having a child is important to you but you dont set the bar for everyone else. people like you make me sick .
JAKE
Hate to say this, but Jake is a man -- his opinion on this blog about childfree women shouldn't matter anyway, and it doesn't (at least for me)!!!
P.S. to Earlier Post re "Jake"
In retrospect, Jake may NOT be a man -- could be a woman disguising herself as man. That's even sadder.
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