Sunday Star Times on the child-free

I was surprised to see another article in the Sunday Star Times magazine today about people who choose to be childfree. It was centred around woman who are full-time Aunties, in other words they enjoy the children of their siblings or friends, often looking after them and having them stay, but they choose not to have children of their own. Statements referring to the childfree as perhaps not ‘women born with a maternal instinct by-pass’ or ‘having a disease that can’t be cured’ might be a sign that this status is becoming more acceptable.