It's getting ugly between 'breeders' and 'childless cat ladies'

in today's episode of "People Suck"


It's getting ugly between 'breeders' and 'childless cat ladies'


Online, parents and the child-free-by-choice are having heated battles over who's more insensitive.


As more Americans opt out of having kids, the online discourse between parents and those who are choosing to live "child-free" are getting heated.

In 2024, TikTok couple Alex Madison and Jon Bouffard, who had long been known for making content about their “DINK” (that is, dual-income, no kids) lifestyle, posted a viral video announcing that Alex was pregnant. Like most of their posts, the video was a sketch, framed as their “resignation” from the child-free lifestyle — a whimsical DINK administrator told them to say goodbye to all eight hours of sleep, going to the bathroom by themselves and ever going to a party again.


The comments section of their Instagram post filled up with congratulations, laughing emoji and … something darker. People who had loved Madison and Bouffard’s funny, relatable content about being child-free wrote that they would be unfollowing. “Children will ruin your relationship,” one commenter wrote, predicting what pregnancy would do to Madison’s body. “Oh noooooo the weird kid content is starting [sic]. I’ll be unsubscribing,” said another. In response, supportive followers hit back, calling the negative commenters “childfree lunatics” and “kidless narcissist[s].”

In the 4,000 comments, a battle was raging: Parents and people who were child-free by choice, exchanging vitriolic volleys and revealing a cultural rift that extends far beyond one TikTok couple.

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