Childfree by choice
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OBITUARY: MOTHERHOOD
May 13, 1972
Died, as a symbol, a life role, a sacred institution, sometime in the early nineteen-seventies. Causes of death: concern for overpopulation; and the desire of many to live as free individuals, not nurturers of young.
—Ellen Peck, New York Times
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When I was seventeen, my mother suddenly passed away. I was deeply upset when she died so early. And I realized there was no guarantee that I wouldn't give my children the same kind of pain one day. I vowed to never pass down that pain.
—Jeong Kwan
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If motherhood doesn't interest you, don't do it. It didn't interest me, so I didn't do it.
—Katharine Hepburn
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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
—Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
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Having a first child is like throwing a hand grenade into a marriage.
—Nora Ephron
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Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
—Michael Levine
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I love children, especially when they cry, because then somebody comes and takes them away.
—Nancy Milfors
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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.
—Dick Cavett
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Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
—Robert Frost
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids
Confessions of a childfree woman
National Alliance for Optional Parenthood
For the record, I am not pregnant. What I am is fed up.
Not a mother, and no less a woman
Why women choose not to have children
Not wanting kids is entirely normal
The two reasons parents regret having kids
People who don't have kids: We want work-life balance too
One legacy of the pandemic may be less judgment of the child-free
We’ve been doing the same thing to the earth that we do to women
Man to sue parents for giving birth to him
Were you born without your consent?