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    Unfortunately, not everyone is so enlightened. There are many societies that aren’t so understanding. However, I wonder how people would view your decisions to educate yourself, travel or whatever if you didn’t have kids at all. I’m so tired of being called “selfish” because I don’t have kids when I feel the decision

    Well I can honestly say that mothers have done the same. I feel many times that mothers feel like they have to make non-mothers feel badly to justify their own decision. Maybe that's just a flaw of being a woman or just being human. Not sure how much of this men do.

    As a “non-breeder”, I don’t go out of my way to be an asshole. Do you not like “breeder” because it doesn’t make you sound like a special snowflake who created a little human that is another special snowflake? I don’t try to glorify my childless life. I think there are people with kids and without, and your life is