RedEye: Child-free by choice

Erin Vandenberg, 29, sometimes doesn't want to deal with the question of whether she will have children. Because answering it is never a simple no.

"If they say, 'Why not?' I say, 'Well, we just don't want to.' Then, there's the whole, 'You don't know. You might change your mind,' 'Well, I didn't want kids til I was "X" age and then I had to have them,' " Vandenberg said.

That's both doubtful and insulting, said Vandenberg's husband, Jason Kositarut, 30. "It's almost like saying, 'You really don't know yourself. You don't understand anything about who you are and what you want.' I just kind of want to say, 'Shut up!' "

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