Perspective: 'At 20, I had my tubes tied. Now I’m 30, and I don’t regret it.'
iStock By Maria Cook April 1 “I hope I don’t see you back here, when you’re 30, telling me that you have regrets.”
I understood the reasoning, in principle. It’s generally expected that a person’s 30s will be wildly different from their 20s. The thing I couldn’t seem to get my doctors — even the one who ended up performing my surgery — to understand is that most people’s 30s are wildly different from their 20s because most people raise kids during their 30s. With no kids? Not a whole lot changes.
Like many of my child-free friends, I just wasn’t interested in parenthood. It’s hard to explain. Why do I hate the taste of green onions, when most other people find them delicious? I can’t tell you the reason … I can only say that they’ve ruined my loaded baked potato. Most people do experience the urge to have children — since the vast majority of people choose to become parents.
While these things don’t necessarily add up to a better public image for child-free people they seem like a step in the right direction — toward a world where everyone can make the reproductive choices that are best for them with less judgment from others.
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