First Post

Well for someone who usually has a lot to say I am not too sure what to put.

I thought I would mention this article from bbc website which is pretty interesting:

Childless or childfree? Not so long ago, all women without children were known as childless, with its implication of a state of loss. Nowadays, a growing number of women are insisting on the term childfree - with its emphasis on liberation.

In the UK, the most commonly cited statistic is that by 2010, one in four will be either childfree or childless.

Jonathan McCalmont is the founder of Kidding Aside (The British Childfree Association), which was first set up on the internet to lobby for equality for people without children.
He is fed up with the way the government is wooing parents with longer maternity pay, paternity leave, flexible hours and family tax breaks. He describes the latter as "simply a middle-class tax break masquerading as social policy."
He is angry at what he says is a redistribution of money from people without children to those with.
He contends that childfree people who have other responsibilities - such as looking after an elderly parent - should get the same benefits.
"We believe it is up to the individual to decide what constitutes a family," he says. "It's not up to the state."

So it appears there are more of us than people seem to realise.

I seem to know more people without children than with them. That may change as I am only in my early twenties but here is hoping it wont.