[ReaganGirl]

I'll never know what it is like to be a totally self-centered child-LESS person,

Just so we're clear on this...does that statement apply to ALL childless couples?

[mamaduck]

RG, your #208 already answered that! Bless You!
fwit, dh is 50 I am 40 and we are hoping for more, putting ourselves in the position you and your dh are choosing to avoid, but that is because that is what we believe is right for us
you obviously *value* children and future generations in a parental way, you don't seem to me to be "Child-Free and Carefree"

too much responsibility is being bypassed in the name of "self-fulfillment",
raising the next generation being the Highest Responsibility and the Highest "self-fulfillment" . . . um, that's "imho" :-)