"Childless" vs. "Child-Free": Why They're Different (Page 2)

[Mrwoo99]

Kids and a wife are the biggest liabilities known to man.

[AriadneSky]

childless = want but can't have

childfree= decided not to have.

[JudgmentDay]

there's also anti-natalist=immoral or ethically questionable to bring someone into existence to this kind of a world which would expose someone to pain, harm, suffering, and an inevitable death, and more importantly, no one that isn't born yet can provide clear consent and confirmation that they had actually ever wanted to come into existence and be born into this kind of a world, this kind of a reality.

[lumberman9]

This is how I feel and whenever I'm asked why I don't want kids I bring up examples such as the ones you've mention here but this goes a little deeper good job

[Espolareisback]

They aren't different you just want to rebrand the word to mean something else because you think it reflects negatively on you.

[vonasaurus]

not having kids isn't something that reflects negatively on me at all, though i do believe that wanting kids and being unable to have them isn't the same thing as actively deciding not to have them.

i know many people who wanted kids and couldn't have them; my heart goes out to those people, but i don't count myself among their numbers.

[Espolareisback]

Same word applies to both.

[ColinHarvey]

Let the unmarried have kids, so that the next generation won't have oppressive white male fathers, they can be raised by totally awesome spinsters.

[yotes-of-472]

Be it that the only form of birth control I believe in is abstinence and plan to have lots of sex, that should mean I want lots of kids. Hopefully, my wife is willing too.

[vonasaurus]

if you both want them, that's fine; go to town.

[John_Doesnt]

I just don't like kids.