#childless

[classycookiexo]

Period

[freckled-radfem]

Reasons not to get pregnant/have a child/raise children. From girlwiththelist1 on tiktok

[timelhess]

Let's normalize not wanting any kids.

Let’s normalize not wanting to be a parent.

Let’s stop making women feel like that is their only purpose in life.

Let’s stop telling women that it’s just a phase and that they’ll “change their mind”.

Let’s stop demanding reasons from women who say they don’t want kids.

Let's normalize living our lives the way we want to, not how society tells us to.

Photo credit: twitter.com/the_female_lead

[zenwannabe]

i low-key hate how childfree content online so often focuses on expensive vacations, meals, homes, etc as the main perk/point of not having kids. Like i’m not saying these things are wrong exactly but overly prioritizing American consumerism is gonna leave us empty. Humans generally find meaning in love/sacrifice/connection more anything else BUT kids are not the only way to experience those things (!!!)

we only have so much emotional bandwidth and time, right? as a childless person i am able to have more energy to devote to my friends and family and community than somebody with toddlers at home. i can babysit for a friend in a pinch because i don’t have a sick kid at home myself. i can volunteer at the women’s shelter after work because i’m not coaching rec basketball. i can adopt a dog that’s about to be euthanized because i don’t have to worry about that dog eating my kid. i can drop everything and go take care of a depressed friend in another state. the list goes on.

i’m not saying that childfree people have to like, atone for not having children by being extra do-gooding. but i do think not having children is an opportunity to do a lot of good in the world in a way that parents just can’t (because they are busy raising the next generation of humans which is also important!!). i think the decision to abstain from parenthood can be seen as a loving commitment to the world and humanity at large. but also yeah vacations are pretty cool too.

[myjukeboxbrain]

[dzgrizzle]

Childless Cat Daddies in Solidarity with Childless Cat Ladies 🐱

[blankbooks]

to my future child

I’m scared of a lot

But mostly I’m scared of the day I’ll hold you in my arms for the first time

And I'm scared of the day you spill milk on the carpet

And I’m scared of the way my voice will pierce the air and travel right to your heart and stay in your brain forever

I’m also afraid of the day you throw a tantrum, of the look I’ll give you in public, a promise of returning home and the punishment that awaits you

I’m afraid of the day you grow obnoxious, of the way I’ll resent the way you speak about the newest cartoons and why that is your favorite character

I’m afraid of the day you flinch

I’m afraid of the day I’ll try to soothe you, but really it's me I’m trying to make feel better 

I’m also scared of the day you finally grow resentful and angry 

And I'm scared of the day I will be right 

Afraid that one day I’ll see that I wasn't kind enough, brave enough, stable enough to raise you as I should have 

I’m afraid of the day I’ll realize I’m her

And the day I realize you are me. 

To my dearest… never-to-be born child.

May we never meet. 

The kindest thing I can do for you is make absolutely certain the day we meet, the day I hold you in my arms for the first time never comes.

[animentality]

[lousydrawingsforgoodpeople]

[classycookiexo]

[jacks-weird-world]

Jack's reaction to J.D. vance's speech about Kamala Harris doesn't have children. His prejudiced speech was discussed again.

In an interview, he said:

"A bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too."

🧶🐱

[iamtheweirdomister]

[bloghrexach]

🐱 … Direct quote from JD Vance:

“J. D. Vance Says the U.S. is Run by Childless Cat Ladies Who Are Miserable With Their Lives

And this guy wants to be our next vice president?

When J.D. Vance ran for the Senate in 2021 as an Ohio Republican, he accused Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Vice President Kamala Harris, and Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg of being “childless cat ladies.”

He added, “Maybe if we want a healthy ruling class in this country … we should support more people who actually have kids.” … 🐱

@hrexach

[captainclickycat]

I’m very happily childless but one of the things that is kind of annoying about it is the way it doesn’t give you any conversational footing.

Like when you’re talking to someone and the topic of kids comes up, and they have kids, so they have a whole conversational opening to talk about their kids and their ages and personalities and how little Simon just won the Duke of Wimbingkingshamsham award for caber tossing and Julie is the youngest bank manager in the UK at eight.

And then they say “how about you, do you have kids?” and all you can say is “no”.

And then everything just feels a bit imbalanced and wrong-footed in that moment because you can’t build on that. You can’t talk at length about the absence of children. You wind up feeling like you haven’t had a proper turn.

[jay-wasreblogging]

When you can live without sex and romance, you'd be surprised at the level of entitlement people think they have over you and your decisions.

Don't get me started on not wanting children as a cis woman.