Kids aren’t for everyone. But it’s better for everyone if you have them.
December 18, 2023
If your social media habits are like mine, then every few weeks you run across a video celebrating life without children. A recent TikTok introduced viewers to a couple of “DINKs” — double income, no kids. They boast about how they can go to workout classes on the weekend, plan European vacations, “get into snobby hobbies like skiing and golfing” and, somewhat bafflingly, “go to Florida on a whim.”
Often, such videos come my way via someone who is dunking on the DINKs: in this case, by leaving the comment, “You’re both genetic dead ends congrats.”
