I don’t have kids because I don’t want any.
I'm childfree for the same reasons. That you and I choose to do this in a society that is still deeply tilted towards having children and raising a family, and offers many benefits -- spoken and unspoken -- for being so, is in itself an act of protest. That you and I can choose to do this without facing immediate, devastating, life-changing consequences is in itself the result of many acts of protest before we came along.
Everything is political, including the personal. Granted this is one of the much quieter, slower forms of revolution against the status quo, but it is one nonetheless.
Nah, I don't have kids because I don't want any. It's not a protest, not everything has to be a social movement. Drop the gen Z nonsense and just accept people do things for other reasons.
I don't want to give birth, and I'd be a shit mom. That's why I'm child free.
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