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15 May 2025, 6:22 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
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Ah right, so you knew then? That is good.


Yeah, I'm confident enough in my intellect that I can make jokes where me appearing stupid is part of the joke. :nerdy:


Fair do's, ha.



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16 May 2025, 2:40 pm

The short answer is yes



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17 May 2025, 10:08 pm

I'm childfree. My three sisters have all had kids, my twin had 3 of them. From an early age she always had dolls and gravitated towards anyone that had a baby. I was the complete opposite. I'm happy to have had no children but I do sometimes wonder who'll look after me when I'm old and need the care.



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18 May 2025, 9:57 am

funeralxempire wrote:
I'm childfree, as far as I know.

If not, I'd like to remain ignorant.

My dad used to say “You three are the only ones I know about”.

Childfree myself.


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19 May 2025, 6:13 am

Me also! I have never wanted children, in the past i was a bit scared of them even.



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22 May 2025, 9:34 am

Parenthood is something I would considered when I was in my 20s, but I am more or less childfree now.


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25 May 2025, 8:36 am

renaeden wrote:
I'm childfree. My three sisters have all had kids, my twin had 3 of them. From an early age she always had dolls and gravitated towards anyone that had a baby. I was the complete opposite. I'm happy to have had no children but I do sometimes wonder who'll look after me when I'm old and need the care.


I used to work in a nursing home. The residents hardly had their kids come. I'm sure a good amount were placed in home by the kids out of resentment, so I wouldn't dwell on that so much.



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25 May 2025, 9:13 am

I'm childfree and have no desire to have children


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25 May 2025, 5:10 pm

We need some more subclasses here

Kidproof
Child resistant
Child tolerant
Child challenged



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25 May 2025, 11:38 pm

Carbonhalo wrote:
We need some more subclasses here

Kidproof
Child resistant
Child tolerant
Child challenged


I would put child challenged in the category of childless, because wouldn't they still want kids? Child tolerant I'd consider to be a fence sitter. They may or may not be ok with having kids, or aren't against the idea of having kids.



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07 Jun 2025, 7:02 pm

I used to be obsessed with the idea of homeschooling, but I was more interested in learning and thought that would translate to teaching and child-rearing, which it does not. Then I became an anti-natalist. However, some anti-natalists adopt. That’s not me. I don’t support the adoption industrial complex.