Voluntary childlessness Puns

Some of you may have seen this already but I wanted to share anyway. A lot of us struggle, especially when we are first beginning to share our decisions. I love the list Wikipedia has. It covers a lot of reasons one may decide to be child free. My husband was like next time someone grills you send them this list. If they really wanna know they can put in the effort to understand. Hopefully with an open mind.

It’s interesting this trend has increased. It makes me happy that women (and men) are embracing more and more their decision to go against the norm.

Child free female, 40 years young. Happy reading.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_childlessness

Hey everyone.. I’m just gonna speak about myself a bit I’m 27 yo female & I never wanted or had any interest in having kids .. I raised my siblings & other family children & I know what’s it like to be trapped with a child for the most of your life & it’s not a thing I want to do in life at all ..

I only brought this subject up to my mom & family friends & you won’t believe the reaction I got .. I mean it went between giving me the crazy looks & it’s your only purpose in life , once you’re married your husband will change your mind, you are watching too many western media & all that crap talk ..

& honestly I feel trapped between wanting to share my life with someone & also not willing to have any kids

So I have a few questions for you ..

If you are a childfree person in Saudi Arabia

• how did you talk to your parents ?
• How are u planning on finding your significant other ?
• If you are going with the traditional marriage how are you going to bring this subject up without looking like a villain? & if there any already married couple please tell us how you guys met & how to dealt with society..

Good day! We're 4th year Psychology students in Our Lady of Fatima University here in the Philippines, and we're hoping that you could be one of our participants in our latest research!

We are conducting a study titled “An Interpretative Phenomenological Study Behind the Reasons of Voluntary Childlessness Among Married Couples in their Middle Adulthood”.

This is open to any married couples and we hope that you qualify with our criteria in mind, with you being:

a. Married for at least 15 to 24 years

b. 40 to 65-years-old

c. Married at the age of at least 20 years old.

d. Couples who don't have medical conditions that would prevent them from giving birth

e. Married couples who has no experience of childlessness from miscarriage

f. Married couples who weren't previously separated

Your experiences and insights on this area of knowledge or its lack thereof will truly help those who are in your community and us researchers as well. Thank you for reading and as for further inquiries, feel free to reach out and directly message us here on reddit. Thank you

Some media portrays the future riddled with infertility (like in Handmaids Tale) and that’s how our population will severely decline. I feel like it’s actually going to be lots of people choosing not to have them. I know this childfree movement is growing like crazy, especially with this pandemic. It will be interesting to see how the younger generations go. What’s your predictions?

Wondering if anyone here has made this decision, how they communicated it to family/friends, and what the reactions were like.

I'm bewildered that he can practice Clinical Psychology? He doesn't sound respectful or rational at all in this video, when he was recounting a dialogue with a patient. I transcribed his speech from 2:03:

>And she said something along the lines of: "Well, I'm not sure I should bring a child into this world." I thought, oh God, Christ, you got to come up with something better than that, such a bloody cliche, which is what I told her. I said, you know, you must have thought that up when you were 16. It's like, really? That's your...you can't do any better? This is a very very smart woman. It's like really, and they can't do any better than that?

These insults don't rebut the doctrine of antinatalism (cf. /r/antinatalism). With time stamps:

>and she said 02:03 something along the lines of: "well I'm 02:05 not sure I should bring a child into 02:06 this world." I thought, oh God, Christ, you 02:09 got to come up with something better 02:10 than that, such a bloody cliche, which is 02:12 what I told her. I said, you know, 02:13 you must have thought that up when you 02:14 were 16. It's like, really? That's your...you 02:17 can't do any better? This is a very very 02:19 smart woman. It's like really, and they 02:21 can't do any better than that?

So, I am reading a court judgment from a recent court case when a transgender person demanded from a Ministry of Interior Affairs change of our version of a social security ID to identify as women without a need to undergo a surgery as it happened successfully (after a court decision) in Germany, Austria, France and other European countries. They did deny the request even though the case has been supported by a judgment of European Court of Human Rights, but when they argue why they are denying the request they literally say:

>The society can, from the standpoint of the normative (moral, legal, social acceptance), approach differently from what is statistically excluded - an exception may be desirable (for example, exceptionally high intelligence or talent), neutral (in the European context for example red hair), not undesirable itself, but felt as something that should not become the predominant pattern of behavior (for example, homosexuality, voluntary childlessness or a decisive factor in the present case, a mismatch between biological and perceived sex), and finally more or less unacceptable to which society it responds by varying the intensity of its suppression, from considering it inappropriate to moral condemnation to more or less vigorous repression by legal means.

Which makes me feel like if there will be too many child free people in my country, the second highest court in my country would consider a law that everyone needs to procreate (or ban of sterilization, and other measures people take to stay child free) not against a spirit of European Convention on Human Rights, because being child free became a predominant pattern of behavior which according to their opinion it is something that should not become a predominant patter of behavior even though we're all well aware (at least at this sub) what environmental disaster overpopulation is, and how we may very well be at a tipping point of future sustainability of human life on this planet...

There are agents of socialization which create an idealistic image of parenthood. Furthermore, it is sometimes considered deviant by society to have a married couple of a certain age without any children (what is wrong with them? Is it infertility? Why don't they want a child?!?!). In the United States and many other parts of the world, voluntary childlessness is seen as abnormal.

I'd like to examine the legitimacy of parenthood as an ideal and what might happen if society embraced voluntary childlessness as a positive choice.

So my dad (a history professor) recommended me this article which looks at the phenomenon of a high rate 'voluntary childlessness' in Germany in the '20s and how the attitudes towards being childfree were represented in the media both at the time and today. Thought some people might be interested to read and discuss it too! Here's the link - leads to a pdf download from the journal's website. http://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/articles/10.16995/sim.8/galley/7/download/

i see people use “childfree” all the time when they really mean “childless.” you are NOT childfree if you want/plan to have children!! you are childless!! childfree people do not plan or want children in their lives. that includes step-children. it’s not a huge deal but kind of annoys me because i’m wondering if people think i still want kids in the future when i say i’m childfree.

I made this Youtube playlist entitled: "Conservatism is a breeding cult (why are Right-Wing Fundies so obsessed with breeding and making it mandatory for everyone?)":

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzG_3q50DuPlZXPMVl1-ko1fs46FoxLr5

Why are Conservaturds so obsessed with everyone breeding and having babies by the truckloads and making everyone having kids mandatory? Why do they constantly practice involuntary or voluntary childlessness shaming?

Why do they keep ignoring and trivilizing very real issues like overpopulation, global pandemic, global warming or climate change, pollution, income inequality, worker exploitation, corporatocracy, the super wealthy elites and top 1% hoarding all the wealth, for profit health care, the dangers and damage caused by automation*, and all these very real issues and problems that make the lives of current humans, and would make the lives of future humans, miserable and sometimes unberearable?

*https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzG_3q50DuPnSHNbnaryJ4hygWa2qWJju

Why do they not get, accept and respect the fact that some people don't want to bring babies into the world under these circumstances and the current state of the world? Why do they not get that it makes much more sense to have less children not more? That a lot of people who want to have kids should adopt kids instead of having biological kids because it makes logical sense that people should adopt and take care of the kids that are already here instead of making more and that thousands of orphans kids don't have parents and that by supporting gay marriage and gay adoption many more kids will grow up in loving homes instead of being raised as wards of the state by the government?

Why can't they accept the fact that abstinence only "education" does not work, that you can't stop teenage hormonal bombs age 12 to 18 from having sex and that these kids need sex education so they will know how to use contraception and protect themselves from diseases and unwanted pregnancy?

Why are they against life-saving abortions, like pregnant little girls raped by child molesters (these little girls will die if they don't get life-saving abortions because the body of a little girl is not meant to give birth and she will either die or be permanently invalid), and young women whose lives are endangered by the pr

For my master’s thesis (neuroscience grad student), I have decided to explore the topic of being childfree, the psychology behind it, the concept of “implicit joy” that is said to be only experienced by parents (and obviously, to debunk/counter it).

However, I wanted to hear from the community at large what would you like to see researched and/or studied more with regards to being childfree (by choice)? Recently, there have been posts with links to articles and/or studies gaining traction on mainstream media about the childfree movement, but they seem to be repetitive in my opinion.

I’m even struggling coming up with a title that is as catchy, but encompasses what my thesis will be about and also what questions to ask, as I’ll mostly be doing a qualitative research/analysis. So, this is where I want to hear from you guys:

1. What area/subject matter about being childfree would you want to see presented more in a (qualitative) research study?

2. What are your suggestions for questions you’d like to be asked about being childfree?

3. Any other thing that I haven’t mentioned.

PS: I’ve also casually been browsing for PhD positions on being childfree and I’ve typed in several keywords (childfree, childless, childfree by choice, voluntary childlessness, etc), but can’t find any opportunities — all I keep getting are articles written by PhDs, but NOT actual open PhD positions. I’m in Belgium, but I’m open to any location in the West. If you guys come upon such openings, or if you know a better way (or keywords) to search for this please send them my way. I haven’t fully decided on doing a PhD, but if I choose that route, this is the ONLY topic I want to study/investigate. Typical bench/wet lab research and being in a lab environment is definitely NOT my thing.

Thanks, guys!

EDIT: MASSIVE THANK YOU TO YOU ALL FOR YOUR INCREDIBLE SUGGESTIONS! Y’ALL WILL BE THE REASON I GRADUATE WITH MY MSc NEXT SUMMER AFTER AN INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT YEAR (WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE GRADUATED THIS SUMMER, BUT HAD A MENTAL BREAKDOWN AFTER A VERY DIFFICULT/BORDERLINE TOXIC INTERNSHIP AND COULDN’T WRITE MY THESIS). YOU ARE ALL AWESOME!!!

It's often suggested that voluntary childlessness is a relatively recent phenomenon, mostly enabled by easy access to contraceptives, government supported eldercare, and other economic factors.

How true is this claim? How prevalent was voluntary childlessness in historical (pre-industrial, pre-agricultural etc) societies? Were there any other significant cultural/economic factors that influenced the viability of childlessness in those societies?

Tried to make this readable on my phone, so sorry if this is just a wall of text.

Alright, so some background: I am a teetotaler. My wife is the same. I come from a family who can't handle their alcohol. Dad's side are the dumb, mischievously mean drunks, my Mom's side are the emotional, wailing drunks. Growing up, most holidays and celebrations ended very uncomfortably. Never violently, but uncomfortably enough to never want to repeat it. For those reasons, I heavily prefer not to be around alcohol or people actively drinking alcohol. The smell of alcohol summons unpleasant memories and emotions, and watching someone getting buzzed or drunk puts me on edge like you wouldn't believe. My wife is that way simply because she just thinks alcohol is gross. Now, all that being said, I don't give a shit what adults do on their off time. As long as you're safe and you have a plan, you go ahead and make your liver's guardian angel beg Satan to at least spare a few cells to start a new one.

However, a situation recently reared its head that has made me question the military's relationship with alcohol and where it should draw the line.

My unit is great. Our commander is a certified human being, our supe is an impartial distributor of enlisted justice, and my supervisory chain is the picture of just plain supportive leadership. However, 95% of my unit's morale events so far (normally one or two a month) have been at a brewery, bar, taphouse, etc. And these people DRINK. There's normally a few DDs, but most just Uber it home afterwards. Because these are voluntary, I opt out. I show up to events that are alcohol free, but those are few and far between. I should add, out of the about 50-60 squadron members, I am only one if less than 10 that are married, and only 1 of about six or seven with kids. The rest are either single or divorced and childless/non-custodial.

I was tasked last week with organizing a squadron morale event. Cool. But there was one requirement; it had to be at a venue that primarily served alcohol. I asked my supervisor if me organizing this was a requirement. After checking, he told me that no, I wasn't required to do this. So I told him that those requirements didn't sit with me and to give it to someone else, and that I would be happy to organize something else. I was told no problem. Well, my supe cornered me offline and told me that I was building an antisocial image, and that me not showing up to these events was making look like I couldn'

Hello! I'm interested to know if there are health benefits to never being pregnant. By googling I've seen some research about a slightly elevated risk of certain cancers, but I think there must be benefits like less back/joint pain, fewer urinary incontinence issues etc. I'm interested in science here, not bashing mothers' bodies, thanks.

i am a 19 year old male who plans to never have children(there are many reasons why i don`t want to have kids but that`s beside the point). i turn 20 in june and one of the things i want to do when i do turn 20 is look into getting a vasectomy. i confided in my mother about this last october and she told me that while she`s fine with me making this choice(though she was a bit shocked as should be expected); she told me that i might have a hard time because most doctors won`t do it for someone as young as i am.

those words have stuck with me. in particular; what has stuck with me is how doctors who do this are being colossal assholes.

a person should be allowed to do with their body what they like. if they want a tattoo; they should be allowed to get one. if they want a piercing; they should be allowed to get one.

when a doctor refuses to give someone a vasectomy/tie someone`s tubes; they are basically trying to control what a person does with their own body.

the classic line "my body my rules" is often applied when talking about a woman`s right to abortion but i feel that it applies to much more then just that. it applies to a person`s natural right to have a say in what happens to their body.

i have read a lot of reddit stories of people who wanted vasectomies/to get their tubes tied but the doctors refused to do so. later on; they accidentally knock up their partner/got pregnant despite all the precautions being exercised. as a result; their lives get royally fucked up and all because the doctor they went to felt that having the moral high ground was more important then actually...you know...DOING THEIR DAMN JOBS!

i have nothing but respect for doctors(especially in this current situation). however; if a doctor refuses to give someone a vasectomy/tie someone`s tubes because they`re "too young"; i automatically lose a little respect for that doctor.

edit: so; i`ve been reading your comments and i can safely say that my faith in humanity has decreased significantly. clearly; none of you have ever had your choices invalidated by an ageist coward. not to mention; you`re pretty much saying that it`s ok for doctors to refuse to give service that anyone for any reason(or no reason at all). when i responded to one commenter by saying "by that same logic; a doctor can refuse to give chemo to someone that they don`t deem worthy of life"; that person said yes. and they said it like it was perfectly alright to condemn someone to death simply beca

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

With increasing rates of voluntary childlessness worldwide, I expect less than 50% of adults in the year 2090 will choose to have children. Governments will come up with creative ways to incentivize people to have kids, but ultimately it will be seen as a huge sacrifice to personal freedoms.

The most successful program will be open adoption. A young couple will have a child who will be adopted by an older couple. Whether or not the young pair stay together, they will always be welcome to visit the child and be a part of their life. The older couple will provide the emotional, financial, physical stability required to raise the child well. Bio mom and dad will be seen more like a cool aunt or uncle of today.

Children raised in this way will grow up to be delightfully well-adjusted, with a strong sense of support and love from many family members, biological and ‘legal’. They will also participate in the program, so they can enjoy the benefits of genetic parenthood and ‘legal parenthood’. It will allow them to have exciting experiences in their 20s and 30s like their peers, and also have the fulfillment of parenthood, the best of both worlds.

I predict this will take up to 200 years because it will take some time for that first generation of open adoption families to happen.

Hey, I chose voluntary childlessness as a topic for my theses for school.

I'm going to interview childfree people in the practical part, the questions for my interviews are nearly done, but I was wondering If you guys could help me come up with some interesting questions concerning the topic, it may be something you get frequently asked about, or something you personally would like to find out more about.

Thank you so much for any help :)

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

As COP26 takes place, we know the leaders present at the table will make decisions with far off deadlines, and those deadlines will never be met. Their deadlines from years ago were not met, and we should not expect subsequent deadlines to be met in the future. It's a game of delaying and forgetting. Much like the "Great Forgetting", we forget the truth, and we forget our way forward.

The change must come from 'We the People'. We must remember that we have the ultimate power.

It seems to me that the most effective way to reverse climate change is to reverse population growth, and it must be done in non-violent, voluntary ways. We the people could pledge to:

1. have one less child than originally planned,
2. to eat organic foods from farmers markets,
3. to insulate our homes,
4. to buy less disposable junk,
5. to reuse, fix, and recycle older items,
6. to install solar panels,
7. switch from gas appliances to electric,
8. eat less beef and pork,
9. to grow at least SOME food on our lawn instead of just grass,
10. to work from home or as close to home as possible,
11. and to voice your concerns to lawmakers to help create the type of regulation needed to get us on track.

If the government (US) were to stop subsidizing corn, and stop offering a child tax credit, this would do 3 things:

1. it would limit the feed available for grain fed beef cows, reducing the number of animals held in CAFO's, making beef more expensive, reducing the amount of animal methane in the air.
2. it would reduce the production of high fructose corn syrup, which is in almost all processed food, which makes people, especially poor people, unhealthy.
3. and would make it more expensive to have children overall. Reproduction is a right, of course, but we should not incentivize it with nearly 8 billion on the planet. We should incentivize limiting population growth by perhaps a "childless tax credit" or even offering incentives for getting sterilized.

What are your solutions?

And now I’m cannelloni