"Child Free"

Child Free Glossary

I don't know how long this link will stay active, but the article covers "Child free lingo" from "Baby Not On Board: A Celebration of Life Without Kids"

Let me start with the understanding that having kids is a choice, and if you're ambivalent about it beforehand, you should wait. Personally, it wasn't my 'plan' to have a child as early as we did, but it was always in our 'plan' to have children. So timing just got a bit screwed up.

What really pisses me off about this article, and I suppose, would piss me off about the book, are these two phrases:

"Zombie Parents from Planet Zygote: Former friends who, since having kids, have become a major drag to be around.

Diaper Diplomacy: The fine art of ditching friends who turn into Zombie Parents from Planet Zygote"

If this is how you feel about your friends as they struggle through a vast life changing process? In which the very nature of who they are gets tossed around and suddenly, the time they used to have is nonexistent? Well, hm, let's put this gently. You suck and you are a lousy, crappy person. Hopefully when you're going through a rough time at work, with a relationship, going back to school, you know, any of those big changes that rock the foundation of your world? Your friends will abandon you, too.

And may no OPC take care of you in the nursing home.

(I'm not talking to anyone here, just the jerkstores who write this kind of thing. And those who believe it.)