child-full vs. child-less poll (was Re: Let's start a poll!)

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And I'm really late into this discussion.  I am an childless-by-choice and
childfree.  And, since I fixed it so that I can't procreate, so is
Noelle...

 > From: Reen Bodo <http://www.best.com/~bodo>
 > Date: Thu  Sep  9,  8:56pm
 >
 > Really from: Reen Bodo <http://www.best.com/~bodo>
 > I've been away for a few days of peace and quiet at a Benedictine monastery
 > - hope the polls haven't closed on this question:
 > 
 > I am happily child-free by choice.  I'm turning 42 in a couple of weeks and,
 > contrary to what everyone told me throughout my teens and my twenties *and*
 > my thirties about my so-called "biological clock," it has never started
 > ticking and it's not likely to start now. 
 > 
 > For some of us, nothing about having or raising children has ever been
 > appealing, and it was often a trial to hear people tell me - as if they knew
 > my mind and my feelings better than I did - that someday I would change my
 > mind.  I'm just lucky that it was only dense but well-meaning strangers who
 > said that; my family and friends, God bless 'em, have always known better.
 > 
 > Reen