"I wasn't stating they weren't. But describing them as such describes children only in terms of the negatives and not in terms of the positives so many ppl seem to derive from them. Same as 'childless' only takes into account the positives of having a child w/o the negatives.

My housemate never wants to own a house, she loves the fact that renting means not having to fix things, or mow the lawn, or figure out how to pay for a new roof or any of that. She doesn't decribe herself as 'housefree' though."