Aussie actress and model Ellie Gonsalves has shared a list of 117 reasons she does not want to have children, and the response has perfectly summarised why she shared it in the first place.
The choice to have children or not is a really personal one, right? But as Ellie, and anyone else who has made the decision not to could tell you, it's also one that many others feel a need to have an opinion on.
So, in a Sunday night post, she decided to tackle this head-on with her personal 'reasons to remain child free' list, because "a short reason was never good enough or understood".
Points on the list range from silly or satirical (they can turn into serial killers) to simply just factually correct (they *can* in fact poo inside you).
Others include oft-cited things like losing your identity and alllll the risks of pregnancy and childbirth.
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They will give you one answer "because we wanted them" and yet my answer of "we don't want children" is often met with pity or scorn or comments like "you don't know what you want".
Ah yeah I do because I have my own list of literally all the reasons I DO NOT want them where as parents have just that one reason, yet I'm viewed as the selfish one.
Go figure
I'm going to pinch that haha
One time after being asked if I have kids and answering no thinking that would be the end of it, the guy asked me "why not". I answer "because I'm too smart for that".
He did NOT like that answer LOL