Exercising that choice should not earn anyone criticism. It is not anyone else's business, it is a good choice for the environment, and no one benefits from the birth of yet another unwanted child. The childfree are oppressed in this country, not in the sense of being pulled over by cops for no reason but in the sense of facing continual derision and condescension, and having to pick up the pieces that parents drop when they run off to care for their children. Imagine what the childfree endure from non-feminists. What I do want is for the childfree to receive the same consideration.
Parents choose to make children the focal point of their lives.
Other of us choose travel, or volunteering, or music, or our marriages, or any of innumerable other pursuits, yet we cannot take time off to follow our passions, but instead have to put in more time to pick up the slack for parents. Your reviewer finds no evidence that the childfree suffer economic penalties. Let's remember that parents choose to have children, and that given our severe over-population, having children is no public service. Your reviewer says Burkett's friends are not poor. I've never met the woman, but I know many childfree people who are in the working class and struggling to make ends meet.