Will the real child-free movement please stand up?
Erica Noonan is the mother of two young children and wrote “Will the real child-free movement please stand up?” in which she addresses something that happened on her discussion board pertaining to the “Bratfree” chat board community. The point is not what happened but what she said in response. I definitely think it’s worth a read because she makes some excellent points about some people in the childfree community.
I understand that some people really do hate children and they have a right to their personal preferences but this is not the entire childfree community. I think the childfree community gets such a bad reception particularly because of this type of anger. This is a big part of why I started this site, to explain that people who have made the choice to be childfree are not all hateful angry people. We don’t cheer when children are harmed or killed or hate parents. I have a great deal of respect for good parents. As long as parents respect my choice to not have children I will respect their choice to reproduce. That being said there’s nothing wrong with having a place to vent the frustrations we have with screaming children, pressures to reproduce and the like either.
