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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/Chrip846 on 2023-09-30 20:02:23.
Me (20M) and my girlfriend (20F) have have been dating for a little bit over 2 years now. We spend a lot of time around each others families and luckily we both have pretty “transparent” relationships with our parents. One thing that they pretty commonly bring up is questions like “when are you gonna have kids” or pretty much just questions having to do with kids, when we plan on having them and how many we want to have. We don’t exactly keep it a secret that we don’t want children. We have talked about this a lot and both just come to the conclusion that we don’t want them. In mentioning this to either of our parents they are usually pretty hostile about it. Like saying what’s the point of living our lives and getting married if we don’t want children. We’ve explained it to them before but the hostility hasn’t changed one bit. I’ve learned to just ignore it pretty well so I’m not really worried about that. I’m just wondering why is this so frowned upon, especially by the older generation?