There was one nice but nosey mom at my son’s school who didn’t stop asking me when I was going to have another until I told her, “I’m 42. I’m not going to have another!” I think people are sometimes just making conversation but you do meet some folks who can’t process the fact that you are “only” having one.

but I don’t think a kid should be saddled with a parent who spends time possibly resenting having them.

Not so much “people”: women. Women get this question.

“i know a lawyer who is great with finding adoption placements from good family backgrounds, do you want to setup an introduction meeting?”

I often say to people that children are for people who like kids. I am not and never will be one of those people. And if that makes me selfish, so be it. but I don’t think a kid should be saddled with a parent who spends time possibly resenting having them. But really, why do people effing care if you have kids or…

Rude people are everywhere, but when I moved to the South there was an enormous uptick of people demanding to know when I will get married, when I will have kids, how many kids do I think I will have, etc. I have had so many people down here refer to my boyfriend as my husband, just because why WOULDN’T I be married?…

This is because the moment you say you don’t want kids, everyone exclaims, “But don’t you love babies! Babies are so cute! Children will make you a real human being! I never loved until I had a child! Your decision is very bad because kids are so great!”

In my experience, while some people do choose not to have children because they hate kids, more people choose not to have children because they like kids too much to subject them to life with unhappy parents.

It is very

I just realized I don’t have much of any of those things. Still glad I don’t have a kid, though.

It really is a thing of beauty, this response. With just a trace of shade (“I really appreciate that other people do”), like nutmeg in a risotto.

I tell people I do hate kids. If they’re stupid enough to believe me, fuck ‘em.

One of my coworkers recently said they got their kid the new Zelda game. I said, I got it too. For myself.

It’s weird that everyone who decides not to have children must add a footnote that they don’t hate kids.

Could also be:

We decided not to have children. I really appreciate that other people do and we will always have friends that have children that we are close to but It was a choice I made very early.

“Some of my best friends have children.”

When people ask me if I have kids, I usually respond with, “No, I have a very expensive computer instead.”

Here’s looking at you, Cake.

I would have gone with “why have children when you can have cake?” but that’s just how I roll. (Also, cake).