Reflections on Choosing a Childfree life.

A middle-aged man’s perspective.

Image by Bianca Mentil from Pixabay

“No children?” Emilio asked them one evening, to his own surprise.
“Nope. Turned out, we don’t breed well in captivity,” George said, unembarrassed.”
― Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

My life’s first memory is of missing my parents. Maybe that is why I decided to not have children. Or maybe because everyone else…