To find the term 'child free' annoying?

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Why not just say you don't want kids? Why do people have to make it sound like some dietary requirement? It's as if they see small humans as some kind of allergen or digestive irritation to be avoided.

Well, that's why I never had children....

It stops people sympathising over something that you are actually quite happy about.

bad day with the kids, OP?

If I say "child free" it means I have time I normally would not have without my DD.
I would assume if someone else says "child free" they mean the same thing- not that they've made a choice not to have children and as a result live "Child free". Surely they'd just be living "child less" as they normally wouldn't have a child?

YABU. Going child-free is a choice for many people, just like going dairy-free or meat-free.

Being child-free doesn't necessarily mean someone doesn't want kids. Perhaps they can't have them, or don't feel currently able to have them given their present circumstances.

Because it's an alternative to childless, which believe you me seems to invite people to enquire about humiliating, private, heart rending medical information that's none of their business.

Childfree tends to stop the conversation dead.

small humans as some kind of allergen or digestive irritation to be avoided. I can remember phases of toddlerhood when that seemed an excellent description!

I like it. Child-less implies deprived. Not everyone wants or decides to have kids. Childfree is a better way to describe this as a valid choice and lifestyle rather than a disappointment.

I've found that these 'child free' people are often also 'gluten free' and 'dairy free' for no medical reason, other than " it's healthier " or " more natural ". Possible also wibbling on about paleo-bollocks or clean eating. Or they only want 'positive people' in their lives.

One of my closest friends is turning into one of these 'people' and I need a rant!

Not everyone wants kids. It’s a perfectly valid view on life. We aren’t an endangered species and frankly every child should be born to someone who wants it.

And it’s a good way of distinguishing it’s by choice rather than not.

I have no problem with it - just mild envy of their ability to have a lie in and a shit in peace

your life must be so amazing if this small thing irritates you!

That is all

Well clean eating and paleo can fuck off, yes. ;)

You honestly have no idea what you are talking about.

Of course not having kids is a valid choice. I'm not the slightest bit interested in other people's reproductive choices. But the term 'childfree' is utter wank.

Surely "I haven't got kids" is sufficient? Anybody then asking inappropriate questions after that, is a tosser anyway.

Worrying that attitudes like this are held by someone who is a parent... No wonder there are so many intolerant brats around, guess where they learn it?

I'm intolerant of made-up bollocks words, yes.

Surely "I haven't got kids" is sufficient?

It stops the sympathetic head -tilt and 'Aw, I couldn't live without mine'. Because the answer 'Your life sounds like living HELL' tends to offend for some reason....

It's not 'made up'..... it's a valid description of their status

I always say I'm happily child-free, and I certainly am! Definitely no food-angst here either.

I totally agree to some extent,I am a mum to 3 and nana to 8 so little ones have been part of my life for a long time and I enjoy their company,what I do find unbearable are parents who "forget" they have children and leave them to their own devices whilst enjoying themselves in restaurants/holidays etc.I have on one occasion returned a child to its mother to be told they had only gone to the bar to order drinks,the child was on the 3rd floor of a hotel so god knows how long the child had been out of sight for it to go from bar to reception to lifts.
How I would love a quiet morning in Costa Coffee without it sounding like a childrens playground (but not all the time to be honest)

The sympathetic head tilters are probably wankers anyway.

Woops I got the wrong end of the stick re OPs post. Sorry folks

It's not a description of their 'status' it's bollocks. I don't keep scorpions as pets. Do I go round announcing that I'm "scorpion-free"? Maybe I should....

I dislike sweet corn, can I be sweet corn free too?

Well good for you OP, I hope you enjoy your rant, because I find that people who judge me for saying childfree have no insight into what my husband and I are going through. So judge away.

Using "childfree" stops the utter tossers asking stupid questions.

(Other than "oh, did you have a bad childhood" idiots.)

One of my steps got fed up with people asking stupid questions when she said she didn't have children and started using childfree just to head them off at the pass. She's quite happy with the result.

Well no, and it's none of my business.

Why do you say "child free" as opposed to just that you don't have kids?