My Mother-In-Law Pressured Me to Have a Baby and Almost Broke Me

When will this obsession with reproduction end?

Ali Hall
The Virago
Published in
7 min readApr 16, 2024

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I’ve known since I was six years old that I don’t want children.

My choice to not have children is not an attack on anyone’s choice to have them. It really is no big deal, but it became a big deal for a few years of my life.

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Ali Hall
The Virago

Kindness = my superpower. ✍Psychology, friendship, social justice, feminism & personal growth. Destigmatising the childfree. Lover of trail running & dogs.