I get the 'fear' part of it. But you are driving out in the public so they have every freedom to collect this information; whether you like it or not.

Yea but doesn't that sound redundant?

This is a surprise?

Ugh, I hate people with your mentality. Just because becoming a parent was a method for you to grow up and become a better person, doesn't mean it that this is the only method you can learn those lessons, or even the best method. It also doesn't mean that any parent will share the same lessons learned or abilities…

"I am far better at not sweating the small stuff, affecting authority, making decisions and accepting alternative solutions to problems, building consensus and many other intangibles. I must say, after returning to the workforce, there are a lot of things that the non-parents lack in those areas. It is extremely…

Speaking of "being a mom is not a job," it pains me so, so very much when we receive resumes at my staffing company from women who include their time as stay-at-home moms on their CVs like it was a job. They always list stuff like "budget management" as one of their responsibilities, as if it somehow translates to…

That's funny, my colleague at work (we're also both corporate lawyers too) refers to her recent maternity leave as her "vacation."

Being a mother isn't a "job" anymore than being a wife or daughter is a job. Not everything that requires putting work into it is a job. When my parents are a lot older, I may have to do a shitload of work to care for them, but that won't make my being a daughter a job. I think calling motherhood a "job" is also…

Your priorities are beautiful. I like (other people's) children, but I LOVE animals. I live in a studio apt with two guinea piggies, but look forward to the day when I have land, a garden, and a menagerie.

I'd just like to right the notion that we are "bad people" for not wanting children. We're not. I've had people try to make me feel bad for never wanting to get married or have kids for years, but I just don't. It's all a personal choice. There are objective ways to view it, like a Malthusian longview on dwindling…

Wait, when were babies worth it?

Someone once asked me if I wanted kids and I replied, "Maybe, if only so I'll have someone to take deal with my shit when I am old and senile and accidentally setting the house on fire."

I was a nanny for about a decade and can say officially that if you want kids but don't want to spend the money be a nanny! I get all the love, I'm not concerned about being a lonely old lady when my husband dies (statistics say he will first), and get to see my quirks in the kids I cared for. PLUS, I got all the…

I know, right?

People who want to clean up baby poop want one of those, that's who.

It's not, sadly.

Yeah, when people see how dead-set against having kids I am, they always pull that out as the last ditch attempt to get me to see the error of my ways. Even if it were guaranteed that they'd take care of you when you're old and infirm, I'm pretty sure creating a human just for that when everything else about the…

Sometimes I see diaper commercials on the TeleVision, and I think: who wants one of those filthy little things tottering around their house?

Plus, like, babies don't even know not to poop on themselves. That junk is gross, guys. No babies.

Sundresses won't take care of you when you're old, sure, but face it: your kids probably won't, either.

Mr. Poppins and I chose dogs, cats, my horse, and three nice vacations a year over children and LOVE our life together.