r/childfree - Where child-haters congregate

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You can enjoy being childfree, or have your own reasonings as to how to live your own life, but these people think their way is the best way, and people who have kids are wrong and stupid. It's just preachy and no one wants to hear about how much you reduced your carbon footprint by not having a child.
 
In the Sick of It said:
You can enjoy being childfree, or have your own reasonings as to how to live your own life, but these people think their way is the best way, and people who have kids are wrong and stupid. It's just preachy and no one wants to hear about how much you reduced your carbon footprint by not having a child.
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Honestly a ton of these people shrieking about crotch fruit are likely urban dangerhairs and soys who think children are icky and force you to do adulting instead of consooming in your Star Wars adult onesie
 
Return of the Freaker said:
Honestly a ton of these people shrieking about crotch fruit are likely urban dangerhairs and soys who think children are icky and force you to do adulting instead of consooming in your Star Wars adult onesie
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I wonder about this too. How much is actual disinterest and how much is soy.
 
Return of the Freaker said:
Honestly a ton of these people shrieking about crotch fruit are likely urban dangerhairs and soys who think children are icky and force you to do adulting instead of consooming in your Star Wars adult onesie
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Getting involved with parenting requires maturity, responsibility, sacrifices, willingness and unconditional love. Kids can be difficult at times, however, I don't hate them at all. I don't blame people for not wanting to have kids for this reason because parenting's a very draining and difficult task. However, all I can say is that I'm glad these perpetual woman/manchildren that have very childish interests and behaviours aren't having any kids. They sound like selfish and immature people.
 
Apparently r/dogfree is a thing too. They're very angry about dogs. I suspect every subreddit that's dedicated to hating something is naturally going to fill up with hateful and unpleasant people.
 
Kiwi FBI Liason said:
Apparently r/dogfree is a thing too. They're very angry about dogs. I suspect every subreddit that's dedicated to hating something is naturally going to fill up with hateful and unpleasant people.
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My favorite post from that sub was someone autistically screeching about their friend petting their chihuahua and giving it attention over them. Wish I'd archived it, pretty sure even the dogfree posters were embarrassed by that guy.
 
Kiwi FBI Liason said:
Apparently r/dogfree is a thing too. They're very angry about dogs. I suspect every subreddit that's dedicated to hating something is naturally going to fill up with hateful and unpleasant people.
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On the surface I can understand both subreddits for those that need a place to vent. E.g. If you're a woman being pressured about having kids, or someone who works in a "dog friendly" office surrounded by misbehaved chihuahuas.
But then I remember this is reddit and all these people are batshit insane (wo)manchildren.
 
Legoshi said:
Getting involved with parenting requires maturity, responsibility, sacrifices, willingness and unconditional love.
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the sincerity and optimism on display here is a little heartbreaking, given the fact that parenting doesn't necessarily require any of these things. good parenting absolutely does, but you'd be hard pressed to find a parent who checks all those boxes.
 
NoReturn said:
On the surface I can understand both subreddits for those that need a place to vent. E.g. If you're a woman being pressured about having kids, or someone who works in a "dog friendly" office surrounded by misbehaved chihuahuas.
But then I remember this is reddit and all these people are batshit insane (wo)manchildren.
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As far as I can tell, that's how it started. It used to be for people who chose to not have children to vent about constantly being harangued about not having children, and then it evolved into a second /r/antinatalism.
 
Just wandering said:
Damn this whole reddit have lot of little nugget of sperginess. I once found one about someone rambling how being childfrre allow him to play all day on console... I lost the post but I found another one
tl:dr bitch star to unfriend people because they have photo of their kid on facebook, this is just peek sassiness
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I'd say it's more like peak denial:
"Haha look at those losers with their families I'm too cool for them..."
 
I remember seeing a post of some people on r/child free of this user's mum holding a baby yoda doll dressed in baby's clothing. I actually felt really bad for her. It looked like deep down, she really wished she would have some grandkids. It just seemed really mocking.
 
In the Sick of It said:
You can enjoy being childfree, or have your own reasonings as to how to live your own life, but these people think their way is the best way, and people who have kids are wrong and stupid. It's just preachy and no one wants to hear about how much you reduced your carbon footprint by not having a child.
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If all the environmental conscious people have no kids, then the only people in the next generation are going to be people who think Global Warming is a Jewish Hoax caused by 5G radiation. Way to hand off the keys to the future to the people who will do the exact opposite of what you fight for.
 
I've always found the "childfree" trend to be a white people thing. Why is that?

r/childfree is full of photos and screencaps of white people. Why are mostly just the white people being such pussies about "feeling pressured to have kids"? "Muh stuff muh free time muh games muh wine" etc.

I feel like it's especially full of women who think popping out a kid is "patriarchy" and all the men in there give me a creepy deadbeat dad vibe.
 
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BadTakeCrucifier said:
I've always found the "childfree" trend to be a white people thing. Why is that?

r/childfree is full of photos and screencaps of white people. Why are mostly just the white people such pussies about "feeling pressured to have kids"? "Muh stuff muh free time muh games muh wine" etc.

I feel like it's especially full of women who think popping out a kid is "patriarchy" and all the men in there give me a creepy deadbeat dad vibe.
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This might come across as me defending them but really I just wanna talk about the following.
There's a ton of reasons for the white people being childfree but one of them I didn't know about until a friend of mine got into an interracial relationship. Namely that white people are way more likely to split into the nuclear families than other ethnic groups. White people seem to think (or assume, and maybe they're right) that if they have kids they'll be going alone, but other people are going on the assumption that you'll have aunts, uncles, and grandparents to help raise the kid.
FWIW I can attest to this from what I've seen in schools, too, not just what my friend is experiencing. When I was in the land of vomit and wood-shavings the white kids were always picked up either by a parent or paid babysitter/nanny, but the non-white kids were picked up by parents or other family members.
 
NoReturn said:
This might come across as me defending them but really I just wanna talk about the following.
There's a ton of reasons for the white people being childfree but one of them I didn't know about until a friend of mine got into an interracial relationship. Namely that white people are way more likely to split into the nuclear families than other ethnic groups. White people seem to think (or assume, and maybe they're right) that if they have kids they'll be going alone, but other people are going on the assumption that you'll have aunts, uncles, and grandparents to help raise the kid.
FWIW I can attest to this from what I've seen in schools, too, not just what my friend is experiencing. When I was in the land of vomit and wood-shavings the white kids were always picked up either by a parent or paid babysitter/nanny, but the non-white kids were picked up by parents or other family members.
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I actually agree, I've always had the perspective that extended family is extremely important and the nuclear family without grand parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. is unstable.

A lot of the problems we see with families in culture at this time, all relate to single parent homes or unstable 2 parent homes where, say, the parents are too young or something. A lot of problems just go away when you have the extended family involved and everyone is watching out for one another.

I've seen IRL that people with the worst personal problems come mostly from homes where, either, their parents got divorced, or they were just straight up raised by a single mom. Raising a kid is hard work, and much harder alone.
 
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NoReturn said:
This might come across as me defending them but really I just wanna talk about the following.
There's a ton of reasons for the white people being childfree but one of them I didn't know about until a friend of mine got into an interracial relationship. Namely that white people are way more likely to split into the nuclear families than other ethnic groups. White people seem to think (or assume, and maybe they're right) that if they have kids they'll be going alone, but other people are going on the assumption that you'll have aunts, uncles, and grandparents to help raise the kid.
FWIW I can attest to this from what I've seen in schools, too, not just what my friend is experiencing. When I was in the land of vomit and wood-shavings the white kids were always picked up either by a parent or paid babysitter/nanny, but the non-white kids were picked up by parents or other family members.
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Maybe it's a suburban family thing, the white side of my family and my husbands family are really big and close. Both are from the rural south. Spending time after school or over the summer with cousins, or aunts and uncles wasn't uncommon.
 
Nekromantik2 said:
Maybe it's a suburban family thing, the white side of my family and my husbands family are really big and close. Both are from the rural south. Spending time after school or over the summer with cousins, or aunts and uncles wasn't uncommon.
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It's more of an urban bugman thing.
 
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