You said it - isolating. That's awesome that you have such great coworkers!!

I have several coworkers who take this attitude with me and its actually really refreshing, I feel lucky to be surrounded by women who support our decision not to procreate. We've had a rash of babies in the office and it can be a bit overwhelming, I get that they are the major conversation piece but when you have…

"Overrated" - that's funny...as I remember it, that's exactly the word my mother used. I'd never been interested in kids, but there was always that voice in the back of my head saying 'But what if you're missing out on the greatest thing about life?' As soon as she said that though, it was like a huge weight had been…

About 10 years ago, my GYN told me that having kids was highly overrated. He probably tells that to all of his patients who are reproductively challenged, as I am, but I will love him until the day he dies for it. It wasn't meant to be a mean thing to those who have kids, it was just a sort of shrug. "Eh. Kids. I…

"I assume it just gives you something to do together, something to talk about together, and a project with a long-term goal that gives you more of an excuse to stay together."

This is true, in the way that hunkering down in a fox hole to avoid enemy fire gives a pair of soldiers something to do together.

Su... ...pport? #wutsthat?

Can't everyone just STFU about who is happier with what, and just support each other? Is that too much to ask?

Yes, good point. My mum advised me against having children, but she waited until I was an adult to tell me. I feel nothing but gratitude to her for being honest about it.

Well, some infertile couples aren't financially stable enough to adopt. Poor folks who can't have kids very often don't get to adopt or seek alternative fertility methods.

If you don't already have things to do together and talk about, your relationship is doomed; children will only make a bad situation worse for everybody (including the kids.)

This is, actually, also a recurring theme on here. I'm constantly shocked at how vindictive people can be about former prisoners on here, and how little forgiveness is given.

Everything about Laverne Cox and Cece McDonald together makes me incredibly happy.

Agree.

But when admitting it, admit it quietly and not to your children. I know from experience...and therapy.

It's a myth that having children is a magic bullet that will fulfill everyone. I wish more parents would admit it.

So we shouldn't expect our countries to treat people with dignity just because they don't do it in developing states. Got it.

I feel like they need to separate the "women without children" category into women who voluntarily have no children and women who want but for whatever reason cannot have children. I think the numbers are probably at opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of happiness in those two sub-groups of childless women.

By that logic nothing should made better for anyone anywhere because there is always someone who has it worse.

You are in prison for a reason. You are in there to pay your debt...

“I don’t think it’s fair to the children conceived and to the taxpayers,” he said. “You are in prison for a reason. You are in there to pay your debt, and conjugal visits should not be part of the deal.”