I do not trust people who chose to not have children. They lack empathy.
My cousin chose not to have children. She had breast cancer at a young age. She married someone with children, and she has been very involved in their lives.
She’s a wonderful person!
Plus they have little to no stake in the future beyond the end of their lives.
Hey! I've chosen not to have children… though that's because I'm unmarried.
While I'd like to get married, I've no illusions that the fairer sex is interested in me (I'm kinda an unaccomplished loser, in my own opinion; I'm out of a job, even though I have a degree; and I'm somewhat asocial)* and many [American] women in my age-group seem rather indoctrinated in the feminist movement.
“I do not trust people who chose to not have children. They lack empathy.”
Ah... It couldn’t be that they have doubts about whether this dying country’s society is going to be rather inhospitable to people with traditional values now, would it? Or.. perhaps a health concern that casts doubts about their ability to effectively parent their children over the long haul? Every situation is different.
“I do not trust people who chose to not have children. They lack empathy.”
Absolutely not true!
Some of us knew our limitations and chose not to have children that we could not cope with nor support financially. Many more should have given careful consideration to this question of bringing children into the world before they went along willy nilly and did it.
A prime example is my sister who had 6 kids outside of marriage. After the first one, I suggested she stop there and her exact words to me were, “I will have as many as I want just to spite all of you (family). Well, now she has them and it is not us who have been spited, but her. And she realizes it in spades but it is too late. I love them all dearly and would do anything for them but she has created untold hardship for herself and for them by not thinking beforehand. It is very responsible to not have children when you know you are not fit to have them and care for them.
So don’t lump us all in there with a blanket statement. You have no idea what anyone’s individual status is in such matters unless they specifically tell you.