How 20 child-free adults respond to the question, 'Why don't you want to have kids?'
If you're child-free by choice, you may get comments from people wanting to know more about your decision. Life Kit asked our audience for their go-to responses about being child-free.
by Life Kit
May 11, 2023
2 minutes
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Angela L. Harris is child-free by choice and says people often make comments about her decision or want to know all the details. "I should write a book about all these comments," she says.
If you're child-free, you don't owe an explanation to anyone, says Harris, the founder of , an online community for child-free Black women. "If you don't feel like explaining, don't explain. Your lifefeel like responding, we shared some of her responses to common questions about being child-free in with Life Kit host Marielle Segarra.
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