This whole exchange is quite unpleasant. I feel sorry for people who don't like children - fine to decide you don't want any or of course if you can't - but not liking them is must give you an ulcer - all that bile. Ultimately we are put on this earth to procreate-it's a fact of nature. I wasn't crazy about kids in general until I had some of my own and your whole world changes for the better. Perhaps you'll find that out for yourself one day Baboonery, but until then revel in the fact that you can spend more of your own hard-earned dosh on yourself.
My Dad was a Tory and I well remember his Conservative club banning females from the bar except on Sunday evenings (he changed all that when he became chair).
Life for women in this country has changed enormously since my parents' generation. My mother was not allowed to continue being a nurse after she married - many of my former colleagues in the City (in the 90s) believed that women should stay at home once they had children and made sexist comments when they returned. Thank heavens we now have legislation to better protect the rights of women and greater equality in the workplace - but there is still a long way to go in terms of equal salaries! We can thank the EU for most of this - ooh good I can hear another diatribe on the way!
Also, I could retire next year at 60 but will slog on until 65 because I have a child who will not leave school until I reach that age. A lot of childless people are in a position to retire early because they have not had all the extra expense of raising a family.
There are pluses and minuses but a little tolerance and humour wouldn't go amiss.