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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very glad I live in a society where women have the choice (and methods) to never have children. We still have a lot of work to do to get the point where it's not just assumed that every woman will or wants to be a broodmare. [/quote]

+1000! I'm a 30yo woman who is doing my PhD and I have long decided that I am childfree by choice. My grandmother didn't have the same choices I have- she was illiterate and coerced into marriage and bore 7 children- with no pain meds. Her life sucked and I wish more people can realize just how recent it has been in human history for a woman to exercise her reproductive choices. Unless of course you're in Alabama. [/quote]

I have an Ivy League PhD and 3 kids. You sound clueless.[/quote]

Why does PP sound clueless? Women having control over their reproductive choices is a very recent development, even in the West. It's good that women can choose for themselves if  and when they want children.[/quote]

she sounds clueless because she is only 30 and “has long decided to be childless. how long can that be?
also she is clueless for using her grandma as relevant alternative to pursing a PhD.  plenty of women have kids, careers and advanced degrees. [/quote]

I'm the PP with the illiterate grandmother. I have never desired a child of my own and resent it when people question me about it. One Trumpster relative of my husband told me that it's my duty as a woman to reproduce. That's nuts. I'm happy for women who want to and get to be mothers but I also hope that they respect my being childfree. I would never question a mother and ask why she chose to have kids, but somehow that respect isn't mutual.[/quote]

You will have better luck finding people who ‘respect’ your being childfree if you don’t troll parenting forums. It seems like you need lots of validation for your choice not to have kids from those who have. Nobody cares if you have kids or not.[/quote]

I hope you're not one of those nosy people at parties who grill women on their childbearing intentions then. [/quote]

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