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I am one of these child free uncles. I believe I have two nieces, one of which I guess to be 7 or 8 years old. I have seen one of them once.
I'm sorry, I clearly have no idea what's good for them.
On a positive side, I live with two children and hopefully that'll be enough for me to learn how to become a better uncle.
Childless uncle here. My role is to love my nephew and support him in whatever way he needs me to.
Sometimes he just needs me to be a responsible, safe adult he can count on who isn't burdened by the need to act parental.
I just help mine with computer problems. Don't have much else to offer. Last week one called me about an issue they were having and they had already tried all the troubleshooting I knew for the issue off the top of my head (which included some fairly technical stuff she had researched on her own). I was really proud of her.
I said great-uncles and great-aunts.
Uncles and Aunts tend to mind their own business. They see the kids parents as peers (because they are) and generally respect their decisions.
It probably has more to do with being old and not seeing your baby nibling as someone who can handle being a parent themselves, now. They wrongly assume age=wisdom and totally forget that they have 0 parenting experience to look back to.
And they come out of the word work for it, too. They're retired boomers on that good DINK money. They got wads of money and nothing but time. So now they want to be involved all the time.
I'm sure all child-free adults are exactly as you described.