Never Pressure Me to Breed. EVER.

I don't want to have kids. I don't even like kids. I don't like babies, I don't like toddlers, I don't like school-aged kids, I don't like pre-teens and I don't like teenagers. I never want to have one in my uterus or ever push one out of my uterus. I think there are too many people on this planet already and I don't want to add to the problem. I'd also rather spend the rest of my life enjoying the company of my spouse than giving up everything for an overdeveloped cumshot that gets in the way. Taking care of a kid is not my idea of fun. It's my idea of torture. Kids aren't for me. Period.

One of my two sisters has a son, and my other sister is pregnant with her first kid. I have one brother, but I don't think he's going to have kids any time soon, or ever. So why am I being pressured by my family members to breed? Why aren't they pressuring my brother? Oh right. Because he's a man and I'm a woman, and all women have the dream of being a baby-machine, right? And we all know that men are too busy and too important to raise children. They're doing more important things like playing golf and gambling and watching football. But since I was born with a vagina and a pair of tits, my role in society is to make more people, is that it? Is that where we still are after all these years? Come on, people!

My mother wants me to breed because to her, kids are a science experiment: "Aren't you curious to see what your child will look like?" Seriously? That is the reason to have kids? To see what comes out? I'm pretty sure I know what my and Bob Saget's* kid will look like: dandruff, acne, glasses, and rosacia. That's what'll come out. Doesn't sound very cute, does it?

My sister on the other hand, just refuses to accept that I don't want kids. She punched out a kid and has no life now, so she wants me to do the same and be miserable like her. Because we all know that breeders hate when other people are happy. They want all of us to hate life as much as they do. And she has an answer for every one of my reasons, it seems.

me: I don't even like kids.

Sis: But when it's your own you'll love it!

But what if I don't? What then?

me: There are too many people on the planet already.

Sis: Having just one kid won't hurt the planet!

OR

Sis: But if you only have one or two you aren't contributing to overpopulation, because they'll replace you and Bob Saget!

See how she conveniently ignores the possibility that two kids can create a hundred people in a matter of decades?

me: If I have a kid and s/he doesn't go the vegan route, all my work as a vegan will be meaningless, because all those animals I saved will just be killed by my kid.

Sis: But your kid will be vegan if you raise him/her right!

Uh, that's not necessarily true. My dad raised me right and tried to raise me Christian, but look what I am now. An atheist.

I think it's downright rude to try and talk childfree people into breeding kids. You don't see me telling breeders that they should give their kids up for adoption (though many I've met really should consider the option!) do you? Last I heard women had rights in this country, including the right to not be a lemming baby-maker! Why is it that breeders always want me to respect their life choice and their kids and their mistakes, but then I have to listen to them clearly disrespecting my lifestyle choice? Can we say double-standard? Yeah, breeders holding a double standard for the childfree. Who'd-a-thunk it?

*Bob Saget is the alias I use for my boyfriend in online discussions. I call him that because he looks a lot like Bob.