Opinion: Why I made the choice to not have kids
LA TimesI mean, I’m not volunteering to change a diaper, but I’ll happily roll down a hill. At gatherings I respond to the anticipated, “When are you having kids?” with a teasing, “Ohhh we’ll see hahahahaa,” and hurry over to the snacks. The pressure to procreate comes from so many directions I’m considering pitching a “Walking Dead” spinoff where the child free are the living and everyone else are zombies trying to turn us. So, when I told one friend in an uncertain whisper that I wasn’t planning to have children, I was shocked by her reaction: “Telling people you don’t want kids is like telling people you’re vegan. I smell their babies’ heads and hug their toddlers and I’m transported back through my “Sliding Doors.” You see, it’s not that I didn’t want kids.
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