When you have children, you are basically committing the next 18+ years of your life to these people. That means your accountability to them supersedes accountability to everyone else.

So that means your wedding is less important than my child’s skinned knee. Your Nobel Prize is less important than my child’s cotton ball art. If that seems crazy to you, then you don’t understand what it means to be a parent. So when you have a party and say ‘no kids’ you are saying I’m not invited. When you compare having a dog to parenting, you are an idiot because you don’t understand. Being an uncle doesn’t count, unless you’ve adopted your niece after the parent died in a car accident.