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I'm Not Having Kids (and That's Okay)


Caution! You will probably need a decent sense of humor and/or an understanding that not everything you read on the internet is a personal attack on you before proceeding today. We’re going to cover a topic that some people get extremely touchy about, even when it’s not about them – and it’s about to get real sassy up in here.

Signs include being nosy as hell about what other people get up to, assuming everyone around them wants the exact same things out of life as they do, and being worryingly concerned about the sex lives and reproductive habits of others. Erin at Red Debted Stepchild had an excellent post about how children (and pets) are a nonessential item in your budget. Unless you can suddenly predict the future (and if you can, you have a ton of more important stuff to be taking care of then lecturing me about how I’ll feel about kids after I’ve had them).

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