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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
Wow. Do people really need help feeling okay about the choice not to have kids? That's sad.
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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Apparently childfree-by-choice people get harrassed about it a lot, in the US at least, from anecdata I've read.
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Yes and yes. In the US it's very common for child-free people (and
especially child-free women) to be harassed for not having kids. I was lucky to have the support of my mother (who waited a long time to decide to have kids) when my husband and I weren't sure if we wanted to have children. My mother-in-law, on the other hand, declared that we weren't "being proper", as apparently "proper" couples have children. We eventually decided to have a baby, but we were harassed by his mom for nearly 7 nears.