Playboy Advisor

October, 2011

IVIy fiancee and I have decided not to have children. We don't bring it up in conversation, but when people with kids find out, they attack our position as if it were a threat. Why do parents feel they have the right to tell us we should reproduce?—A.S., Des Moines, IowaThey recognize quality genes when they see them. As psychologist Ellen Walker points out in her book Com­plete Without Kids, members of any social minority (e.g., childless cou­ples, atheists, nonrecyclers, libertar­ians) will ha...