“Why do you want children?” and other questions we aren’t supposed to ask
10 min readMay 17, 2018
As a woman with a sound uterus that’s never hosted a pregnancy (by design), I’ve been asked with uninhibited frankness about my no-children choice.
I’ve had a relative say — not about me, of course, she assured me — that every person she knows who chose not to have children is selfish. Even one of my parents, before coming around to…