Originally Posted by
The Weak Link
This thread should have been called "Child-free Cycling" to insure that it didn't get moved to Foo.
I will have to trust in the moderator's discretion. In many ways this thread cannot belong in any other forum. It would take being 50+ to have enough perspective on your life to answer the question properly.
For me there have been effects, though I cannot really judge them. Had I kids, I might not have kept bicycling all my life. Car-free and car-light living is much more difficult with kids. And you don't have the time for weekend wandering about on bicycle. That was what I was most interested in, not whether it happened, but how it affected you.
Most of my friends as a young adult were child free. Not that we realized it at the time, but then as we got to our 40s, we realized that we had not reproduced. Friends with kids seemed so different.