[rosenfan]

Objectively speaking, children are a nuisance, and inconvenience, and a burden. They are also (for some) a joy and a blessing.

I'm not so sure that "childfree" has a positive connotation, any more than "childless" has a negative one.

[Lonely Bull]

Objectively speaking, children are a nuisance, and inconvenience, and a burden. They are also (for some) a joy and a blessing.

I should've specified: such terms tend to treat their subjects simply as nuisances or worse.

Since children are human, what impression do you get from "human-free"?

I'm not so sure that "childfree" has a positive connotation, any more than "childless" has a negative one.

I can't think of a term along those lines where "-free" isn't supposed to sound positive: proponents of "gun-free" or "drug-free" zones don't think that guns or drugs (in general) are good things.

Maybe "child-free" is an exception, but I don't see how. Is there some reason why it is?