re: What are your thoughts on people who never have children?

Some are great. Some are obviously selfish assholes.

Speaking to the latter, when we moved here, we got connected with some families from church. We had our oldest at 23 so most of them didn’t have kids when we met. There was one girl who was getting her doctorate and you could really tell didn’t want to hang out if our kids were around. She was fine if it was just adults.

Eventually when we all got to our 30s and childless couples all started falling to the wayside with kids and they just slowly cut them all out of their lives. They eventually moved to a close town and she started teaching at the university there. She stopped calling or seeing any of us. We noticed that any time she posted on social media, it was always with college students as friends. Which is fine, but then we realized that was all the people she ever hung out with.

Turns out she just cycles through her students as friends. Her poor husband just hangs out with her friends and genuinely has no other friends outside of work. And he wants kids but she refuses.

That sort of childless I don’t care for. Just personal opinion