A Woman Who Chose Not To Have Kids Is Sharing Responses To Common Questions For People Who Wish To Remain Child-Free, And It's Honestly Super Helpful

It's no secret that more and more Americans are choosing to abstain from having children. In fact, a recent report from the Pew Research Center showed that over 44% of non-parents ages 18 to 49 say it is not too likely or not at all likely that they will have children someday, which is an increase of 7% from the 37% who said the same in a 2018 survey. And it's not a huge mystery as to why more people are making this decision.

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With inflation causing everyday grocery items to skyrocket in price, one-bedroom apartments essentially remaining unaffordable to at least half of America's population, and the federal minimum wage still sitting at a laughable $7.25, people cannot afford to raise a family! And that doesn't even cover the threat of the ongoing climate crisis.

But beyond all of the practical or financial reasons as to why someone might choose to remain child-free; the bottom line is that regardless of the reasoning, this is a very valid choice that deserves just as much respect and acceptance as choosing to raise a family.

So, as someone who has always known on some level that I do not want children, I was immediately validated when I came across a recent TikTok video from user gvizzle_74.

In the video — seen above — Gvizzle stitched another user's video where the original creator was asking child-free women over 40 what their lives are like because she had been told by so many people that she’ll regret her decision to remain child-free. In her own response video, Gvizzle can be heard saying, "I have known my entire life [that] I wasn't going to have children. It was not [even] a decision I made, [it was] something I have always known."

I reached out to the TikTok user whose stitched response went viral — she goes by Gvizzle — to get more information on her stance, and how she found the confidence to speak so openly and unapologetically about it. So, meet Gvizzle, a 48-year-old child-free woman who currently resides in Ontario, Canada.

Gvizzle continued, telling BuzzFeed, "I’ve had people say these same things to me for 30 years, and it’s annoying and exhausting. Seeing her, sitting in her car, presumably just having had one of those conversations, made me sad and upset, so I needed her to know that she’s not alone and she’s not wrong. When you’re the one sitting in the lunchroom at work being lectured at and questioned, it can be hard to remember that you’re not alone, that there are other people, happy, fulfilled people, who’ve made the same choice."