A lot of the hand-wringing about “the child-less” comes because we (and in this case, “we” mostly means “people like J.D. Vance”) put all child-less people into one bucket, I.e. “the selfish.” This is a common approach, but in reality there are multiple buckets of child-less people. Here’s what I’d do:
Child-free: This is child-less by choice and mutual …
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