- Mother-In-Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Childless Quotes
On living fully without children of your own.
These childless quotes push back on assumptions, from couples constantly asked why they haven't had kids to a mentor describing the many ways childless people contribute to children's lives without being parents themselves. It's a theme about being Bombarded with questions and answering on one's own terms.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
While childless couples are constantly asked, 'Why they are not having children,' my husband and I are bombarded with a different set of questions: 'Why would you have so many?' or 'Are you done having children?'
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a mentor and an advocate, I've seen no end to the ways that childless people can contribute to the lives and well-being of kids - and adults, for that matter.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
The absence of doll babies in my toy chest didn't seriously influence my later decision not to become a mother; rather, I disdained Hasbro's Baby Alive wetting doll because I was already the kind of girl who would grow up to be childless by choice.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020