A baby-Bjorn the childfree can get into (plus other childfree news)

Couldn't resist posting this terrifying gag tee. Wearing this may be the closest any childfree person wants to get to sporting a baby Bjorn. BabyGadget blogger Jenna suggests, "it can be a cruel joke (your single, childless friend) or a cheesy pregnancy announcement (just in time for father's day!)."
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Some childfree activists in Wake County, North Carolina apparently don't want their taxes going towards public education. This strikes me as a bad idea. The whole idea behind taxes is they go towards the common good. If everyone could opt to only pay for the services they used, society would be a mess. While I may not have kids myself, I don't want to live in a society where other people's kids aren't fully educated. Therefore I'm happy to pay up.

News & Observer writer (and parent) Ruth Sheehan agrees:

Funny, I view every dollar spent on education as a deposit in a bank account for all of us to draw on in the future.

With a solid education, I expect that my kids will never need to seek public assistance.

That they will never have a run-in with the law.

That they will never spend a night in jail.

Yet someday they will own a home and pay their share for services -- many of which they will never benefit from directly.

At a time when growth problems are at almost biblical proportions, with the schools overflowing and the water running dry, that doesn't seem a bad bargain.

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Writer Sarah Churchwell never had kids because she never found the right man:

I can't imagine anything worse than still being tied to some of the men I've had relationships with - for me, or for any child unfortunate enough to have resulted from those doomed affairs.

I am a far better and far happier person today, having just turned 37, than I was five or ten years ago.

I may perhaps have been more fertile then, but I was definitely more of a fruitcake, as are so many people in their 20s (even if they don't realise it at the time).

The sad truth is that I was pretty needy - but not, thankfully, needy enough to marry the men I dated then, or bear their children.

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Ah, dining out. Such a treat! So relaxing! Unless you have kids. This Detroit News article (originally from Parenting Magazine) on five steps to make dining out with junior less of a nightmare is a delicious reminder of why it's so wonderful not to have kids.

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