Love this. One of the things we recommended on the Childfree Girls twitter account was that instead of asking people when they're going to have a baby, the question should be, "When are you going to become a parent for the rest of your life?" Babies are dehumanized in most societies. We've both reduced and elevated them to symbols (of hope, of promise, of relationship glue, of "legacy," etc.), so a lot of people probably don't really associate them with the lifelong emotional, financial, and personal commitment they are.