The debate over having or not having kids has raged for a long time, but regardless of where one stands, there isa growing child-free movement. But one netizen was curious to hear about theless common argumentsfor people choosing to not have children, so they asked the internet “What is your pettiest reason for not wanting kids?”
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I like money, silence and a tidy house.
I like to be alone.
I take pride in proving wrong every one that said I’d change my mind
Sleeping in/going to bed late
I like delicate, pretty things. Children damage delicate, pretty things.
My cat would hate it if she had to share me
Might be cruel but every time my sister complains about how rowdy her kids get, I think ‘never going to be me’.
I’m not done being a kid myself. Making up for lost time during my childhood now.
F**k the patriarchy is my pettiest reason, but I don’t really have a reason I’m just not interested - the fact that there’s a lot of advantages to that lifestyle is just a great bonus
I enjoy my quiet peace and copious amounts of sleep. Kids would ruin both.
So that whenever anything bad happens in my life, I can say ‘at least I don’t have kids.’ Every morning I wake up happy to not have kids.Also kids' music sucks.
I don’t want to share my snacks.
To prove my mom wrong from that time when I was 10 and she told me—after [foolishly?] telling her I didn’t want to have children when I grew up: “but…having children is the MOST IMPORTANT thing I woman can do with her life!”I have done some seriously cool s**t with my life since then that did not in any way involve having a child.
It hurts.I don’t want to ruin my body.I HATE bodily fluids (snot/pee/vomit/s**t), I do not want any of that disgusting mess near me (that includes pet’s fluids too).
I’m self-centred. I don’t like having to live my life around others needs. Making myself happy is my primary goal in life. I live for me. I view my purpose in this life as being able to cater to my every need. I want to be able pursue whatever I like, whenever I like, however I like with no restrictions. To be a parent means you need to be selfless for decades. That sounds like pure hell!I’m not cold or evil, and people have always come to me for advice/support and find me dependable, but I know if I had to be a parent, I’d resent my kids so much, and no child deserves a parent like that.
I want the option of leaving whenever I need to. I’m happy where I’m at, but I always want to be able to travel or just straight up move without worrying abt a child’s schedule. I would van life, but a kid deserves space and I don’t want to be one of those vanlife influencers who think a curtain is a wall.
It’s something of an official “F U” to the religious upbringing I had telling me the ultimate purpose for uterus bearers like myself was becoming a STAH broodmare
sticky fingers, why are they so f*****g sticky!
Not having to answer “why?” even once per day to anyf*ckingone
Because I like my afternoon naps uninterrupted and free weekends.Also, not giving my homophobic fundie religious Narc dad any grandkids to abuse with threats of damnation and fear of demons wanting to destroy them for being born “sinners” is high up on my list also.
I love my freedom. I want to go out one evening on the whim? I can just do it. I can travel during term time, sleep in, walk around the house in just my knickers and a t-shirt lol
I like not hearing screeching, banging, and thunderous stomping inside my own home. I like having a beautiful garden with lots of plants. It’s nice when the plants don’t get trampled or otherwise destroyed.
I didn’t want to gain weight. I’ve had body image issues since middle school. 4 years ago, I lost weight and kept it off and I’ve been much more confident since. I don’t want to lose that.
Not having to worry about school districts or being close to schools when moving or relocating.
I hate children’s tv shows. Loud, high pitched, etc etc. If something in my home is loud it better f*****g be deathcore.
Loud noises hurt my ears.
I love my body and don’t want to destroy it.
My mil wants me to
The idea of growing something inside my belly sounds too much like Alien the movie and feels so animal world.
They don’t belong in breweries. They also smell worse than dogsh*t.
Babies are ugly.I struggle managing my weight and I don’t want to gain it from getting pregnant.I like to sleepI like spending my money on myself.
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I want to spend my money on my games and books, not on child’s toys and books.
They’re stinky.
I’m a maximalist. I’m sure as hell not trusting my trinkets around sticky, clumsy hands.
Babies are cute on the other hand my reasons to not have kids are cultural indifferences, generational trauma, spankings, groundings and my autism. I don’t want my future offspring to suffer the same way I did.I like to sleep in, work, watch movies, go on road trips and I’m actually behind on adulting at 31.
I like to sleep. And not having a stretched out body with more marks than I have now.
I have an extensive collection of stuffed animals, and I don’t want to share them with anyone
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It’s fascinating how similar passion projects, much liketransforming spaces into art, can become a fulfilling alternative to traditional family life.
I don’t want my sleep interrupted. I’m not getting up.
Getting out of my bed to tend to someone else sounds like a cruel punishment to me. 🤧
Everyone hates the sound of children screaming and crying but I hate the sound of them playingChildren’s laughter is like nails on a chalkboard. I’d be a horrible parent.
Not having to pick up your kid after school. Looks like nightmare to deal with.
Sleeping in and making myself pancakes… every damn day if I feels like it
i don’t want my vagina damaged
I have a nice body and I’m not ruining it for anyone
The thought of sticky windows inside my Audi S5 makes me sad.
I hate colorful s**t. I’m a neutrals / monochrome type of girl. I ain’t having rainbow vomit in my house with ugly cartoon characters.Petty af. 😂
I hate their high-pitched voices. They sound like prey animals.
Fashion is my pettiest reason as to why I’m childfree bc I love dressing up and doing my makeup. I would HATE to give it up due to the lack of time and energy because all of it would go to raising kids and my body would be ruined so no more figure hugging clothes/pretty dresses etc. Forget about wearing heels as you can’t run to catch your kid in them or you’ll snap your ankle.🙄 I’m a huge fashionista I couldn’t see myself not being one!!😭😔
I am dual citizen and have two e-passports, I zip through lines. I do not want to wait in long a*s passport controls with anything under 18 (or 12).
I want to sleep in on christmas
Among hundreds of other reasons, I want to avoid the negative changes that would happen to my body. The reality is that my BDD simply cannot handle a postpartum body
They may be born dumb as rocks. So… 🤷♀️
I’m too exhausted from going to vocational school from 8 a.m. to 3.30 p.m. already and I have two cats to take care of. Hell no. Another reason for me is that kids so often mistreat/are cruel to pets and animals just because they don’t know any better. Like, I’ve seen a young girl pick up a cat only to drop her to the floor once she was done petting her and she pet her way too harshly. (That still brings me to tears, seriously!) Fk no, no little a*e sh*theads are gonna touch my Sphynx sisters. If a kid dropped one of my Sphynxes like that, I swear to the devil, I’d verbally stomp that little st into the ground.
Mine is exactly the same as yours but not MIL, my own mother.
I have a lot of petite friends who have bounced back easily from pregnancy bc they had kids young and I’ve always struggled with the “works out but doesn’t say no to tacos” physique. However, I’ve always been athletic and strong, disciplined with working out and cooking at home. I can’t wait to see their metabolisms finally collapse from no healthy routines whatsoever and eating whatever fast foods their kids eat.
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