Family Choice Quotes

No government should dictate whether or when we should have children….Reproductive freedom is a basic human right.

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.

We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.

You can't have a pristine house with ten dogs, and I'd rather have the ten dogs.

It's the sacrifice I'm not willing to make right now to leave my children because I felt it wasn't only my choice.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.

When you're making a decision that involves your children a certain amount of clarity comes with it.

People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.

I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are, embraces everything about you, and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or without children - it's honestly immaterial to building a life with someone that you love fully.

Mothers of America / let your kids go to the movies!

I've seen straight, partnered women explain their decision to stay at home by noting that childcare would have taken too much out of their paycheck - as if this cost was just theirs to bear!

It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.

This is your father and this your mother, so take the hand of whom you like

My wife is vegan and has been for a few years.

Though I am not against a love marriage, if my parents chose a guy for me, I will go for it.

I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods. I think they're adorable and funny and sweet, and then I have a headache.

Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.