Surely, it takes a special courage for one to dare to be "different".
The childfree are considered as a square peg in a round hole, in a child-centric world.
Any form of "deviance" is socially constructed; there is no such thing as a taboo in all of natural history- it is people and civilization that label it as a form of "deviance" or social "taboo".
Consequently, the "deviant" label becomes attached to an individual or a collective...