Child-Free

Being child-free is not only good for the entire planet, but it’s good for the individual.
Child-free couples are known to have happier marriages, and, naturally, they’re able, as are single child-free people, to live more fulfilling lives.
Most are not born to the job of child-rearing, and few truly have a calling to care-take.
The pressures of culture, family, and the desire to conform, plus the incessant media assaults making people feel they “must” breed, cause - along with irresponsible mistake-making - many to have children they either do not truly want or cannot afford to care for.
The human overpopulation crisis is continuing to cause the needless suffering and deaths of countless unwanted children all over the world.
Still, and sadly, for our planet, and for the millions of suffering chilrdren, people - as technically advanced as we are now - lack the necessary mental equipment to put two and two together on this most vital issue.
Still, we act like complete primitives on this, and on other issues, like warfare, like universalism.
Sad, isn’t it?

Re: Child-Free

I am so glad to have found this group.  I am child-free by choice and luckily, so are a lot of my friends, so I never feel pressured or ostrasized for this choice-we, in fact celebrate it! 

All of the above are so true.  I wish that politicians would speak more of the issue of overpopulation and encourage, not force, people to choose limiting their off-spring!  I am so much happier knowing my life is open and free and I can choose any direction, without the limitations that children put on that.  I am also happy to know I am not adding to the strain on the earth's resources by adding another human to this overcrowded and overtaxed world!

Thank you,
Tasha