In support of “Childfree Women, Please Quit Doing This.”
No one should have to defend their choice either to have or not to have children.
Let me be clear: I am not childfree myself. I have one daughter (see photo above) whose presence in my life, despite all the pain involved for a helluva variety of reasons, I am thrilled to have in my life. And only three miles away at that!
I am definitely not grandchild free, either. My daughter adores babies and has made a career out of her love of them. She had five of her own (lucky lucky me — with grandkids you get the fun, usually without all the self-sacrifice).
But in many ways that was “career training.” No, not career as a mom, but helping other women have the best birthing experience they possibly can, and providing a wonderful photographic record of those events.
Nonetheless, she and I both recognize that the condition of motherhood is not for everyone.
