Child free!

Yet another tedious and sexist article in Grazia this week about women who don't have children. This could have been a really interesting article about those of us who choose to be child free. Instead, it was full of women who didn't have children because they couldn't afford it/hadn't found a man/the man they were with didn't want kids. Not one of them said that they didn't want to have kids at all, even the ones who were "having too much fun" still wanted children in the future.
So yet again, the stereotypes are enforced, that women who don't have children all want them, there are just reasons preventing this. How about an article about those of us who have no desire to have children, EVER. Because we don't want them or need them or have any inclination to do so. It's 2007, and yet all women are still expected to have children, because as women, this is what we are, baby machines. Men who don't want children do not have to live with these assumptions, why should we? They're not told how selfish they are. I don't see why it's selfish to want to enjoy my life and have time to do so, rather than spending 18 years looking after someone else and having to constantly put them first. Plenty of women have children because it's what society expects them to do, and look what happens to the children. So many of them in care, or living with parents who don't give a damn about them. If I was forced to have a child, I'd resent it for the rest of my life, which undoubtedly wouldn't give the child a very good upbringing.
There are plenty of us about who choose not to have children, don't want them ever, and are extremely happy with that choice. It depresses me when magazines that are supposed to be for women only reinforce stereotypes that we're trying to get away from.