Why does not having children seem like the most defiant act of misanthropy known to modern American society? It is true that more adults are childfree but it seems that this lifestyle must be constantly defended. It’s definitely harder for women to defend than for men, as women are expected to have a motherly instinct, but what if that so-called motherly instinct never surfaces?
As a child my sister always wanted to be a mother, it was her life long dream. She played with baby dolls and baby carriages, while I thought there could be nothing more adorable than putting our family dog in the baby carriage. I’ve always felt a motherly instinct for animals, which people always seem to find extremely odd. I thought babies were uninteresting, alien looking creatures and it was hard to believe someone would think that a human baby could be cuter than a puppy or a kitten.
Now as an adult, I’m forced to defend something I haven’t done and never had the desire to do. Usually people only have to defend something they have actually done that was bad, so why is being childfree considered so freakish? I know I haven’t done anything bad. I don’t care if other people have kids or not, I just want people to be happy. I just don’t understand why everyone wants me to have a child so bad?
Are they going to raise it for me? Are they going to deal with worrying whether I am being a bad parent, or worrying about when a bully picks on this hypothetical kid at school? Are they going to be the ones that take care of this hypothetical child when something goes wrong? Are they going to tell this child all the dangers of the world? Are they going to feed, clothe and nurture this hypothetical child? I know the answer is a solid no, so these people need to pardon my language…..shut the FUCK up!
I still think there is nothing cuter than kittens, okay puppies might be tied…..
