Voluntary Childlessness Quotes

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

I don't ever want to have kids of my own. But I do want a lot of kids.

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.

Other people can have all the children they want. Some people ask for no-smoking sections. I ask for no children.

I decided then and there I was never going to have kids.

You say you hate children and people always say the same thing; it would be different if it was your own child. Well what if it wasn't?

I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.

I'm not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.

I made the conscious decision to not have kids, and I didn't want to be married.

To not want children or not be considerate of them is a very unwomanly thing to be, from a certain point of view.

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.