I want to commend the people on here who had the courage to say, “I didn’t choose to have children.” Why? Because I know that you probably have been asked a thousand times by people, because people look at you like you dropped in from Mars or worse….that there is something wrong with you for choosing to remain childless. I’m convinced that a lot of the people who do that are…frankly….a bit jealous.
Well, phooey on them! :)
It takes courage to make a stand and actually say, “No, thank you, not for me.” The same goes for people who choose to remain single and not marry.
I remember a Wanda Sykes comedy bit….where she talks about how she doesn’t have kids. (This is before she found a partner and did have children.) She talked about how she saw her friends have such constricted lives and how she relished her freedom without kids. That there were perks to being childless. She said (very paraphrased):
“Yeah, I go over to my friends houses….and they ask me, “Hey, so where have you been? Oh, really, Wanda….you’ve been to Jamaica? Wow. No, we aren’t going anywhere this summer. No…..we were going somewhere…but not now….hey, little Johnny here….he got braces on his teeth….open up your mouth, Johnny….show Wanda… our Jamaica…..yep, there’s our Jamaica…..why, we’re right on the beach!”
LOL!