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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't want a dog, but I don't feel the need to loudly observe to my dog-owning friends that I can't imagine having a dog because they smell, bark, need to be walked or sent to expensive doggy daycare, whatever.  I just don't get a dog and I go about my life.

I don't understand why childfree people can't do that[/quote]

I think this is the divide in people I know who don’t have kids: I have friends who don’t have & don’t want kids. And that’s it.

And then I know a couple of people who have actively labeled themselves “childfree”— not if you ask them, but they will tell you, even if it has no relation to anything else. And it will come up in conversation repeatedly. And they make posts about “breeders”/kids. And they will make sure to tell you that they can’t imagine pregnancy (“destroying your body”)/having kids, and how terrible parents’ lives are. They’re not so much childfree but anti-child.

I actually think a lot of people do not think seriously enough about the decision to have children. I fully support the decision to choose. But some of the childfree crazies are totally off their rocker. They want to make sure everyone around them feels bad. I find them too exhausting to deal with. It’s hard to be friends with someone if they’re always mocking and criticizing a huge part of your life. [/quote]

Yea, well, we all know you're talking about a small minority of people.  And if we're taught one thing in elementary school, it's that we don't judge all people on the basis of the few.[/quote]

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