If there is one phrase that anyone without kids cannot stand, it is “as a parent…” It is like nails down a blackboard to me. I actually think it’s worse than “you don’t know love until you become a mother” and “it’s not too late yet!”. I hate it because it leverages a faux moral superiority over us childless monsters who presumably lack the emotional range of parents.

But most of all, I hate it because it pulls up the drawbridge and is part of a much wider narrative: that people don’t have children because they don’t like them and don’t want to be around them, and therefore must be selfish and narcissistic individuals who only care for themselves.

The figure of the childfree woman looms large in our collective cultural history, and she is rarely positive. Take Hollywood, for example. S

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