Member-only story
9 Truths about Childfree Living
Why deny them?
There’s a sort of trend, the last few years, of trying to be the one who has it harder than the next person.
The childfree community isn’t exempt from this trend.
But that we engage in it isn’t entirely our fault; parents will often question the legitimacy of a childless/childfree person’s actual or theoretical complaints or woes like this:
“Oh, you’re ‘tired’? Try having kids. If you’re not a parent, you can go to bed any time you want and sleep in ’til noon.”
“Oh, you’re ‘busy’? Wait until you have kids. (You are having kids, aren’t you?) People without children have all the free time in the world.”
“Ha! You call that anxiety? Try letting your kid walk down the driveway to be picked up by the school bus! Whatever you might worry about is nothing compared to thinking some freak could kidnap your baby.”
We who are without child are understandably compelled to argue that we absolutely can be just as tired as parents, just as busy, and just as anxious, thank you very much, because not having children doesn’t mean life is PERFECT.
However…
While I completely understand and appreciate the desire to dispel the many myths about the childfree that may be circulating in…
