Parenting

<p> </p><h2>Living a child-free life unfortunately comes with some completely tone deaf and inappropriate comments from coworkers, family members, or complete strangers wondering why you don&#39;t want the cost or responsibility of raising a human being...</h2><p>So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/c8svok/cf_child_free_people_of_reddit_what_was_the/" target="_blank">Reddit </a>user asked, &quot;Child-free people, what was the weirdest/worst reaction to your life choice you have ever received from someone?&quot; people who don&#39;t have kids were ready to share the most uncomfortable comments they&#39;ve heard about living a child-free life.</p><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>I am 38yo. No kids. A lady asked me the other day, &quot;but don&#39;t you want a purpose in life?&quot; Without kids I guess I am just taking up space?? - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Namsoaloha/">Namsoaloha</a></p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ll change your mind&rdquo; - [deleted]</p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>The topic came up in conversation, and a guy said he didn&#39;t want kids because he wanted to live life for himself. I agreed with him and he said &quot;Wow! That&#39;s so selfish!&quot; Um... You don&#39;t want kids either for exactly the same reasons... - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TheKnightsTippler/">TheKnightsTippler</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;You&#39;ll change your mind&quot; &quot;I said that when I was your age&quot; &quot;I&#39;ll disown you if you get your tubes tied&quot; &quot;I&#39;m gonna laugh when you get pregnant haha&quot; - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/xnerdiebirdx/">xnerdiebirdx</a></p> </blockquote><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>&ldquo;Why would you not want to do what God created you to do?&rdquo; - [deleted]</p> </blockquote><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>Multiple family members have told me that they&rsquo;re going to steal/flush/tamper with my birth control pills. It&rsquo;s always said jokingly but...what the f*ck. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ActualGuesticles/">ActualGuesticles</a></p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>When signing up for a gym membership with my wife, they kept telling us that they have great kids programs, too. Said something along the lines of &quot;thats cool, but we dont have any children.&quot; Lady responds &quot;well, not yet!&quot; and then kept trying to tell me about them. I told her it wouldnt ever come up, so I didnt need to hear about the kids programs.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>She picks up the hint that I am not having kids, but then spends about 5 to 6 awkward minutes trying to convince me that I&#39;ll change my mind, and that I&#39;m just young (I&#39;m 31). Why would I chose to have this conversation with a stranger that works the desk at the gym I am signing up for? Why did she think this was a conversation she should have with me? - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SuperSiriusBlack/">SuperSiriusBlack</a></p> </blockquote><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>Normally when they act as if you have nothing in your life if you don&#39;t have a kid. Especially when they are asking you to do them a favor. &quot;My spawn has some pointless random event at school, you don&#39;t have kids so you can do my work for me&quot; or they act as if you don&#39;t know ANYTHING about children. I honestly hate those types of parents. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Livvylove/">Livvylove</a></p> </blockquote><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>Someone once told me: &quot;I could never rule out the possibility to have children, that&#39;s insane! I always liked the thought that if my life fails miserably and none of my plans work out, I&#39;ll just get pregnant and have a child and have a purpose for the rest of my life and someone who needs and loves me forever. &quot; Yikes. - [deleted]</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;I don&#39;t like kids so I don&#39;t want to have one of my own&quot;</p> <p>&quot;You will not know until you have a kid&quot;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>&quot;So what if I do have a kid and I still don&#39;t like kids&quot;</p> <p>&quot;You will!!!!&quot; - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/GustavoAlex7789/">GustavoAlex7789</a></p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>Child free due to a medical condition, but apparently it&rsquo;s still a possibility because &ldquo;God works in mysterious ways.&rdquo; What if that mysterious way is to make me infertile? Seems like god didn&rsquo;t want me to have kids, and it seems pretty blasphemous to try for them anyway. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/EngineeringQueen/">EngineeringQueen</a></p> </blockquote><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was 28 and took a month off from work to go traveling by myself where this conversation happened:</p> <p>Them: &ldquo;you&rsquo;re traveling alone?&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Me: &ldquo;that&rsquo;s right&rdquo;</p> <p>Them: &ldquo;your husband let you do that?&rdquo;</p> <p>Me: &ldquo;don&rsquo;t have a husband&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Them: &ldquo;so your boyfriend, he&rsquo;s is okay with that?&rdquo;</p> <p>Me: &ldquo;no boyfriend either&rdquo;</p> <p><em>hesitation</em></p> <p>Them: &ldquo;but.... surely you have kids that miss you&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Me: &ldquo;nope! No kids.....&rdquo;</p> <p><em>shocked silence</em> ... they look me up and down.... then say:</p> <p>&ldquo;and you&rsquo;re <em>HOW</em> old?&rdquo; - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Haticha/">Haticha</a></p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>Someone asked if we were not having children because of global warming. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kylie871/">kylie871</a></p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>My brother told me to, &quot;suck it up and have kids. Just grow up.&quot; I didn&#39;t even have a response because I was so taken back that he would say something so callous. He complains about his kids so much so I guess misery really does love company. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/critias12/">critias12</a></p> </blockquote><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>People who sarcastically respond to my plans to travel or go out and do whatever with &quot;Oh must be nice having all that free time and money.&quot; Why yes it is thank you and that&#39;s exactly why I don&#39;t want to mess that up by having kids - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ReeG/">ReeG</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>I once had someone assume my lack of desire to have my own children meant I hated kids in general. The worst part is that both of us were working as summer camp counselors, so I don&rsquo;t know how she got to that conclusion.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>People need to understand that hanging out with kids for a week is wildly different from being solely responsible for one for 18 years of your life, and you can enjoy the former without wanting anything to do with the latter. - [deleted]</p> </blockquote><h2>17.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;What if you weren&#39;t brought into this world?&quot; Then...then nothing? There&#39;s no &quot;me.&quot; So it wouldn&#39;t matter. lol - [deleted]</p> </blockquote><h2>18.</h2><blockquote> <p>Not child free but I am a woman who doesn&rsquo;t want to give birth. (I plan to foster and/or adopt.) The amount of horrified reactions. I can love a being that doesn&rsquo;t share my DNA and frankly there are people who I do share blood with that I can&rsquo;t stand. I want to punch the next person who says but it won&rsquo;t really be your child. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/quirkyknitgirl/">quirkyknitgirl</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>19.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;Real love is only between a parent and child, you&#39;re never going to experience love&quot; - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/HotwifingCanada/">HotwifingCanada</a></p> </blockquote><h2>20.</h2><blockquote> <p>Me: I don&#39;t want kids because I just don&#39;t like people.</p> <p>Them: But kids aren&#39;t people!</p> <p>This one&#39;s happened multiple times. Sometimes they realize what they said and backtrack, a few will just repeat it. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/StarTorchlight/">StarTorchlight</a></p> </blockquote><h2>21.</h2><blockquote> <p>From my mother: &quot;Do you really hate me so f*cking much that you&#39;ll murder my bloodline just to get back at me?&quot; - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/z0mbiegrl/">z0mbiegrl</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

21 child-free people reveal the worst comments they've received about their choice.

 Living a child-free life unfortunately comes with some completely tone deaf and inappropriate comments from coworkers, family members, or complete strangers wondering why you don&#39;t want the cost or responsibility of raising a human being...So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;Child-free people, what was the weirdest/worst reaction to your life choice you have ever received from someone?&quot; people who don&#39;t have kids were ready to share the most uncomfortable comments they&#39;ve heard about living a child-free life.1. I am 38yo. No kids. A lady asked me the other day, &quot;but don&#39;t you want a purpose in life?&quot; Without kids I guess I am just taking up space?? - Namsoaloha 2. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll change your mind&rdquo; - [deleted] 3. The topic came up in conversation, and a guy said he didn&#39;t want kids because he wanted to live life for himself. I agreed with him and he said &quot;Wow! That&#39;s so selfish!&quot; Um... You don&#39;t want kids either for exactly the same reasons... - TheKnightsTippler 4. &quot;You&#39;ll change your mind&quot; &quot;I said that when I was your age&quot; &quot;I&#39;ll disown you if you get your tubes tied&quot; &quot;I&#39;m gonna laugh when you get pregnant haha&quot; - xnerdiebirdx 5. &ldquo;Why would you not want to do what God created you to do?&rdquo; - [deleted] 6. Multiple family members have told me that they&rsquo;re going to steal/flush/tamper with my birth control pills. It&rsquo;s always said jokingly but...what the f*ck. - ActualGuesticles 7. When signing up for a gym membership with my wife, they kept telling us that they have great kids programs, too. Said something along the lines of &quot;thats cool, but we dont have any children.&quot; Lady responds &quot;well, not yet!&quot; and then kept trying to tell me about them. I told her it wouldnt ever come up, so I didnt need to hear about the kids programs.  She picks up the hint that I am not having kids, but then spends about 5 to 6 awkward minutes trying to convince me that I&#39;ll change my mind, and that I&#39;m just young (I&#39;m 31). Why would I chose to have this conversation with a stranger that works the desk at the gym I am signing up for? Why did she think this was a conversation she should have with me? - SuperSiriusBlack 8. Normally when they act as if you have nothing in your life if you don&#39;t have a kid. Especially when they are asking you to do them a favor. &quot;My spawn has some pointless random event at school, you don&#39;t have kids so you can do my work for me&quot; or they act as if you don&#39;t know ANYTHING about children. I honestly hate those types of parents. - Livvylove 9. Someone once told me: &quot;I could never rule out the possibility to have children, that&#39;s insane! I always liked the thought that if my life fails miserably and none of my plans work out, I&#39;ll just get pregnant and have a child and have a purpose for the rest of my life and someone who needs and loves me forever. &quot; Yikes. - [deleted] 10. &quot;I don&#39;t like kids so I don&#39;t want to have one of my own&quot; &quot;You will not know until you have a kid&quot;  &quot;So what if I do have a kid and I still don&#39;t like kids&quot; &quot;You will!!!!&quot; - GustavoAlex7789 11. Child free due to a medical condition, but apparently it&rsquo;s still a possibility because &ldquo;God works in mysterious ways.&rdquo; What if that mysterious way is to make me infertile? Seems like god didn&rsquo;t want me to have kids, and it seems pretty blasphemous to try for them anyway. - EngineeringQueen 12. I was 28 and took a month off from work to go traveling by myself where this conversation happened: Them: &ldquo;you&rsquo;re traveling alone?&rdquo;  Me: &ldquo;that&rsquo;s right&rdquo; Them: &ldquo;your husband let you do that?&rdquo; Me: &ldquo;don&rsquo;t have a husband&rdquo;  Them: &ldquo;so your boyfriend, he&rsquo;s is okay with that?&rdquo; Me: &ldquo;no boyfriend either&rdquo; hesitation Them: &ldquo;but.... surely you have kids that miss you&rdquo;  Me: &ldquo;nope! No kids.....&rdquo; shocked silence ... they look me up and down.... then say: &ldquo;and you&rsquo;re HOW old?&rdquo; - Haticha 13. Someone asked if we were not having children because of global warming. - kylie871 14. My brother told me to, &quot;suck it up and have kids. Just grow up.&quot; I didn&#39;t even have a response because I was so taken back that he would say something so callous. He complains about his kids so much so I guess misery really does love company. - critias12 15. People who sarcastically respond to my plans to travel or go out and do whatever with &quot;Oh must be nice having all that free time and money.&quot; Why yes it is thank you and that&#39;s exactly why I don&#39;t want to mess that up by having kids - ReeG 16. I once had someone assume my lack of desire to have my own children meant I hated kids in general. The worst part is that both of us were working as summer camp counselors, so I don&rsquo;t know how she got to that conclusion.  People need to understand that hanging out with kids for a week is wildly different from being solely responsible for one for 18 years of your life, and you can enjoy the former without wanting anything to do with the latter. - [deleted] 17. &quot;What if you weren&#39;t brought into this world?&quot; Then...then nothing? There&#39;s no &quot;me.&quot; So it wouldn&#39;t matter. lol - [deleted] 18. Not child free but I am a woman who doesn&rsquo;t want to give birth. (I plan to foster and/or adopt.) The amount of horrified reactions. I can love a being that doesn&rsquo;t share my DNA and frankly there are people who I do share blood with that I can&rsquo;t stand. I want to punch the next person who says but it won&rsquo;t really be your child. - quirkyknitgirl 19. &quot;Real love is only between a parent and child, you&#39;re never going to experience love&quot; - HotwifingCanada 20. Me: I don&#39;t want kids because I just don&#39;t like people. Them: But kids aren&#39;t people! This one&#39;s happened multiple times. Sometimes they realize what they said and backtrack, a few will just repeat it. - StarTorchlight 21. From my mother: &quot;Do you really hate me so f*cking much that you&#39;ll murder my bloodline just to get back at me?&quot; - z0mbiegrl 

Living a child-free life unfortunately comes with some completely tone deaf and inappropriate comments from coworkers, family members, or complete strangers wondering why you don&#39;t want the cost or responsibility of raising a human...