[Pedantic_Lady]

I don't see anything wrong with that; people who don't want kids definitely shouldn't have them.

[mdittmar]

Shouldn't the headline be,"Census: Record Number of Women and Men Childless"?

[RightWhale]

40 years ago marriage and children was the thing to do. Now for many it isn't. Economics and high population numbers combine to bring this reality. Perhaps some areas have negative population growth but they are far from depopulated and other areas more than make up the difference. Everyone should be free to start a family--it is a human right according to the UN Declaration of Human Rights but everyone should be free to not start a family if they so choose.

[Centurion2000]

Anne Hare and her husband made a momentous decision three years ago: They would not have children. It's not that they don't like kids, she says. They simply don't want to alter the lifestyle they enjoy.

short sighted idiots. Who would you rather have choose your retirement home when you get that old ? Your flesh and blood or a complete stranger ?

[BSunday]

That headline reminds me of a short story I once read in one of those science fiction pulp anthology magazines. It had to do with some kind of epidemic of spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) in the world, and how that pregnant women got so rare, and the world population was threatened, that having a baby turned into the number one most desired thing on every couples list. Abortion was virutally eliminated and all the abortion clinics closed down. Turns out it was some kind of virus of some sort, released by some scientist or other, who after the world wide attitude shift, released some kind of antidote (no charge). Quite interesting.

[Cicero]

She gets the Darwin award for making her line extinct.

[joey'smom]

I decided 30 years ago, at the age of 21, never to have kids. Best decision I ever made!!! (p.s. Joey is my Pomeranian -- best kid ever!)

[Weimdog]

I hope these childless women don't expect my children to be footing the bill for their Social Security, Medicare, and prescription drugs!

[Age of Reason]

Darwin at work.

In a few generations, women prone to women's liberation baloney will become extinct.

And we'll be better off for it.

[Prime Choice]

To each their own. The worst thing that a child can endure is not being wanted. Material things are immaterial.

I was an "oops" baby, but I always knew growing up that I was wanted. Made all the difference in the world.

[Fizzie]

The number of women 15 to 44 forgoing or putting off motherhood has grown nearly 10 percent since 1990, when roughly 24.3 million were in that class.

I happen to think 15 year old "women" putting off motherhood is a no-brainer.

Non-high school graduates and those with bachelor's degrees were most likely to be childless.

Doesn't that just about cover everyone?

[Yossarian]

I'm a single guy in the Bay Area, full of female-empowerment and party girls. It's pretty amazing to see how many of them become miserable because a) they realized they "had fun" and "put their career first" until they were past fertility age; and b) they realize that real men want to be fathers, and thus that excludes real men dating them.

They end up all partied out and all worked out with nowhere to go. Sad.

Then they become bitter feminazi hags with lots of disposable income. Evil.

[yarddog]

There is something terribly wrong with the world today. People are miserable and don't even know why. I am sure there are some who are childless and happy, some who are unmarried and happy but I was just talking to a little girl, (I guess she isn't so little anymore) who made some choices in her life which she now regrets.

My wife and I got to know this little girl about 11 years ago. She was, and is a real beauty. She attracted boys like nothing I have ever seen. She was queen of everything at a large high school. Was popular in College.

So many boys wanted to marry her but she was not even slightly interested. She wanted to do her own thing.

Now she is working as a receptionist, at medium to low pay, has a two room apartment, a cat, and is so miserable she told us she just about can't stand it anymore.

She still has her share of boyfriends but the really good ones are taken. She wants very badly to get married now but the ones she meets are not the ones who want to marry a 29 year old.

The really sad thing is she doesn't blame herself for her decisions. She just thinks there are no good boys left.

[joedish]

Do you think these childless couples drive a short sighted view in society? Since they have no interest in leaving the world a better place for their children? I wonder if those that have decided to go childless gernally fall to one side of the polical spectrum. I forsee terrible things for our children from the unrestrained growth of government at all levels. If you have no reason to look to the future do you just not care about any of these things?

[TSgt]

I'll be 27 next Saturday and my wife is 26. We've been married for 5 years and have no desire to have children. Our lives don't permit it now with us both working and going to school full-time not to mention the possibility of my military commitment calling me away at a moments notice.

We barely get to spend time with one another rather than our dog and cat.

I also have reservations about society as a whole. Since it wasn't that long ago that I was a child I know just how difficult it is to grow up these days not to mention what it will be like 10 years from now. Society is as evil as it ever was and things don't appear to be on a positive track.

We may have children and we may not. I don't think an individual is being selfish if they choose not to have children. Maybe they are just the opposite for thinking about that which hasn't been conceived yet…

[mvpel]

http://www.nokidding.net/ - The international social club for childfree and childless couples and singles.

[LadyDoc]

and then some of us are infertile, and adopt...

[Lancey Howard]

Anne Hare and her husband made a momentous decision three years ago: They would not have children. It's not that they don't like kids, she says. They simply don't want to alter the lifestyle they enjoy.

I can scarcely imagine anything more selfish.

[philetus]

That's their problem.

[deannadurbin]

I wouldn't give up my five kids for anything. They are a joy as well as hard work.

Having no one to come after you is kinda sad.