What, I thought all childfree people hated kids like whoa?
This is a common assumption, based mostly on people reading a few rants on the subject of badly-behaved children on various internet rant communities and immediately leaping to the conclusion that all childfree people walk about in a permanent and barely repressed state of rage, spitting on prams and creeping around spiking the punch at kids’ parties with weedkiller and valium. Well, maybe the odd one does, But look around you. Read the newspapers. Childfree people are not generally considered a force for social ill by law enforcement or social services agencies. We are not child abusers or a danger to children simply because we do not wish to be parents or give birth or listen to the howls of some child in a pricey restaurant or an age-innappropriate movie. Some of us like most kids ok, we just don’t want any of our own. Some of us work with children, we just do not want any of our own. Some of us are very uncomfortable around children in general or children of a certain age group. So
