>>What I don’t understand is the need for some to attack the character of those who choose not to have children. <<
Seriously, go read Mark Steyn’s America Alone and come back.
You need an education on WHY we need replacements rates. When people like you chose lifestyle over kids, the country goes down the path of the UK.
Hang out here a while and you’ll learn something too.
It's rather a moot point in my case, given that I'm about to turn 50. Even if I wanted kids (which I don't) I wouldn't start a family at that age. I don't want to get married, and I don't even particularly like children, so becoming a father wouldn't be a very responsible thing to do, would it?
There has always been, and will always be, a fraction of the American population who choose not to have children. In spite of this, the projected population of the US in 2050 is 439 million (compared to today's 310 million). It doesn't seem that my choosing only to raise a Husky is having too much of an impact!