How do you handle people who question or rudely comment on your choice to remain child-free?

Question

Why must people with children interrogate those who have chosen to remain child-free? What is so wrong about not wanting to have children? Do these people truly believed that having children is the most important contribution they can make to humanity? Ideas for comebacks to those who insult or constantly question a person's decision to remain child-free?

Answer 1

Remind them how much free time you have for yourself, how you can drop what your doing at any given time and go travel, how much more money you have to spend on yourself or others, remind them that their kids are probably annoying and you are headache free w/o them running around bothering you like everyones kids.......its SO much better to be w/o kids.....it can go both ways, im sure they would be offended by me saying this.

also, ever notice how many people respond to you when you say that you arent married or have any kids and they say...."wow, that must be nice!"

or you could tell them that you cant have any kids and watch them look like jackasses for asking you that

Answer 2

I would probably say something like the following:

"I wouldn't want to bring a child into the world at this time. The neo-cons have made this world unsafe for our children."