re: 16 reasons being child-free is awesome

My soul is rather fulfilled. I don’t need spawns for this. I volunteer at the humane society and I work with special needs children.

We’re all wired differently. The type of vacations I enjoy you can’t take a child on. I love mountaineering. Can’t take lil Johnny on that.

Enjoy your reproducing. I’m glad you’re happy. It’s just not for me.

As for those saying friends don’t last because of families..I’m 41. Pretty sure it’s pasted.

My mother was in nursing home,staff told me plenty old people get dropped off with nothing but the clothes they have on and no one ever comes to see them.
One good reason not to have children is so when you’re in your 60’s you don’t still have children in their 40’s still on the teat.

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Have kids or don't have kids, it's your choice. But what people are stating about kids is FACT. You don't realize how great having kids, is, until you have your own. You can be happy, no kids, vacations, etc... But there is a certain spot in your soul that no amount of vacations can never fill.

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plenty of people don't take care of their kids, and never wanted them in the first place. Plenty of mothers have postpartum depression, some never really get out of it.

To act as if everyone that has a kid just absolutely adores everything about being a parent is asinine.

I'm glad you're one of the good ones, though. I will be as well. I can't wait to have kids.

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First, everyone dies alone.

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haha what?
Be a shitty parent, and maybe you are that grandparent at the nursing home that no one comes visit.
My parents won't be that way, and 3 of my 4 grandparents weren't that way, and the reason the one died alone is b/c the 5 kids he had all hated him.

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Children complete life. They are hands down the best part about life

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This is what you've been brainwashed to believe.

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1. Time
To relax, to travel, to exercise, to socialise, to do Open University degrees and fundraise for three-week hiking expeditions up Mount Kilimanjaro.

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I'm convinced millenials wouldn't go "hiking" or backpacking if they didn't have a way of posting about it on social media. Second, who says you can't do some of that stuff with kids. Third, this is glaringly an article trying to overcompensate.

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2. Small talk
For those who like talking about buggies and the best NCT groups in the area, fantastic. For those who’s conversational capacity stretches beyond that of success rates of the Gina Ford technique, something you’ll never have to endure being child-free.

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I have 2 kids and have no idea what this moron is talking about. Your ability to converse with others doesn't deteriorate because you have kids. If anything, it gives you more things in common with strangers.

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3. Playdates Which, to a parent, means three hours of chaos, mess and noise. To the child-free, an afternoon in a nice pub garden with adult conversation and a decent bottle of Sauvignon Blanc.

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Again, this is another assumption from a non-parent. Playdates are great because the kids get to interact with other kids while you get to hang out and drink with other parents. Not a down side.

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4. Sleep If the rumours are true – you don’t get *any*.

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This is true. But we were lucky and both of our kids slept. I have 2, 4 and 1, and they both sleep really well. I wake up around 7:30 every morning out of habit now, but i enjoy that. Means i have a full day of getting stuff done.

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5. Schedules
It’s naive to suggest that people without children don’t have to structure their day to some degree, but there is flexibility and the opportunity for last-minute spontaneity. Sprog yourself up and spontaneity means booking a summer holiday six months in advance instead of a year.

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Yes, you have to plan ahead if you have kids. Part of being a responsible adult.

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6. Holidays Which don’t need to be taken outside of term time and therefore won’t require re-mortgaging your house to cover the price of the flights.

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We go on vacations still. Don't see the issue.

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7. Children’s TV
Peppa Pig. Like waterboarding for the brain

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Agreed

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8. Nice things
Aka things you can invest a decent amount of money in knowing there won’t be a picture of a spaceship in black biro added to them a week after purchase.

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That's pretty funny, actually.

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9. Swearing freely
So f**ing missed after having children.

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Tell that to my wife.

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10. Not having to pretend you find children’s activities enjoyable
Board games. Yawn.

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It's not the board game i enjoy, it's the time with my kids and teaching them new things.

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11. It doesn’t take you three and a half hours to leave the house
Keys, phone, lippie … out.

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This is true.

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12. Money
Something you have significantly more of as a person without children.

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Again, true. But money doesn't equal happiness. I learned that before kids.

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13. Weekends in Paris
That have been booked that morning.

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If you have a grown up job, probably not doable either. Again, another one of those places that wouldn't be ventured to by millenials if social media didn't exist.

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14. Not having to be a responsible adult *all* of the time
Occasionally getting drunk on Jagerbombs and not making it home until Sunday morning because you’ve pulled and are lying in bed with someone whose surname you don’t know but has just given you three orgasms. *What every parent (secretly) dreams of*

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Well i'm married, and not in college anymore. Getting blackout drunk isn't fun anymore.

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15. Disneyland
What nightmares are made of.

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I love Disney World.

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16. There’s no shortage of kids in the world
Meaning that, despite being child-free yourself, you’re still the awesome auntie/uncle/godparent – and you can hand them back.

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But you aren't a parent. And no amount of babysitting or pets can replace the feeling of being a parent.

Are you people really that worried about your deathbed situation?

Again, I'm not childfree, but it seems very silly to be so hung up on maybe 5% of your life.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: my great aunt and uncle never had kids and they lived one of the best lives I ever witnessed. They had good money, the traveled, they constantly ate at nice restaurants, they were happy. They saw the world and it was, in part, because they didn't have kids. And before you say, "Well, but they had nieces and nephews, blah blah." Yeah, but we only saw our aunt and uncle once or twice a year because they were always off on an adventure.

Having kids is great for some people and for others it just isn't. To suggest your life won't be happy or complete until you have kids is just stupid.

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Are you people really that worried about your deathbed situation? 

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I don't think. seems like just something people w kids say as a "gotcha" type thing.

it's weird af though I agree

Not reading 17 pages.

I have 2 children 7 & 8, but I don’t hate on people who choose not to. With that said, my kids don’t suck and I can see how one could be miserable with the way I see some, not all, kids behave.

We travel the world with our kids. We take one big vacation out of the country every year. We have been to Mexico, Canada, Italy and Australia. Next up is England and Scotland. We also take our yearly trip, which we all enjoy, to Disney World.

Life doesn’t have to suck with kids. Sure the homework, sibling fighting can get to be tiresome, but even if we had no kids, what would we be doing on weeknights anyways? Can’t go out to eat and a bar every night.....well I guess some can.