No kids, no kidding  By Sarah Lang  It takes guts to admit you
don’t want to have children. Especially when people’s response
is that you’re selfish, or you’ll grow old and lonely. Married
and childfree, writer Sarah Lang looks at the pressure to
procreate  Photo / Thinkstock Photo / Thinkstock  Recently, a
friend shared the image above on Facebook. "Exactly! That's
exactly what people say!" I thought, clicking "like" then
"share", feeling partly grateful to whoever had the nerve to
post it, and partly uneasy in case it offended any of my
Facebook friends who have kids.  For reasons I don't want to get
into, I don't plan to procreate. However, now that I'm 33 and
married, the once-occasional questions about having children
have become increasingly common. What exasperates me is that
they come not from my family and close friends, who'll support
me either way, but from the people with the least right to poke
their noses into my business: acquaintances, friends of friends,
family friends, work contacts, neighbo