@Vii: Lol that's not solely a thing isolated with just children. Unfortunately, many many adults are the exact same way, my ex wife is a good example.

I'm honestly not much of a kid person and I tend to dislike most kids. Now, I don't wish ill on them or anything, I love my nieces dearly for instance. I just do not desire to have any nor do I want to babysit. I don't have the patience for them and I'm always worried something bad will happen to them and I won't be able to handle it. I can barely handle myself, let alone someone who is younger than me, and it's a sense of responsibility that I am not ready for. Not to mention that I am absolutely terrified of pregnancy and childbirth. The thought of having another being growing inside me just freaks me out to no end.

That being said, I understand completely where people who don't want children come from since I myself do not want any and I am in no place to judge them. On the other hand, I will also not judge people who have several children. As long as they can provide them with a life that fits all of their basic needs and the children are loved, I don't see a problem.

Currently, I don't have any children's but I have one on the way! So of course I want children :) Bringing a life into the world Is something I always wanted to do.

As for people who chose not to have kids it's their choice, some people don't want to have the responsibility of having s child, or they might not be able to support it finically and I'm not here to judge anyone

I do not want children.
I cannot deal with the mess they are for the first few years. The puke, snot, crying, and other bodily functions. I cannot deal with it. I get really anxious and angry when I hear crying. Pregnancy makes me nauseous. I do not want to go through it.
I have zero want to have children and raise them. I like being able to not have something else run my life and bank account like I know children would do.
As for kids in general, they're alright. If they can behave themselves. I HATE parents who try to be friends and arent parents. When they use empty threats to try to get their kids to behave or just let them scream or give them things to get them to stop.
But my own nieces and nephews i adore, though I can still only handle so much of them.

TLDR; no kids. pregnancy is gross asf and so are babies. also expensive. no thanks

I actually like kids, but I have met children that I do not like because of the way they're raised / also I guess there's something innately spoiled about them (referring to my first niece mostly, who dangled my 3DS over an open toilet and threw my laptop on the couch when I couldn't play with her). I'm mostly terrified of pregnancy -- like the health concerns with it, but I do want to try being a parent when I grow older. I also plan to teach, so I'll be dealing with kids (teenagers, but who knows I can be moved to a different year level haha).

I think there's a particular mindset that people have to be in to stay with children. Like for example, when I relented and played with my niece with some bowling pins (but imagining that they were people) -- I don't think everyone has the patience or the willingness to do that for two hours. To make different voices and move around and do what they want you to do, and that's only a tiny fragment of the whole parenting thing. //applauds parents tbh

I have one 3 year old and am currently 20 weeks pregnant. I have always been someone that has wanted children, but on the other hand am very much aware that some children can be very obnoxious. I totally understand why some wouldn't want to have them and I try to take a live and let live kind of attitude.
At the end of the day I totally appreciate that for some its not an option for various reasons and I'm fine with that. What I cant stand are the people that feel the need to interfere and I think those kinds of people exist on both sides. Either the ones that are telling you (childfree/less people) you'll change your mind etc or the ones that tell you how to raise your children. They are just as bad as each other.
I also had someone turn round to me after I had come back of maternity leave with my first, and say that she'd love to get paid to sit around and do nothing for a year. I was gobsmacked, but I think that's probably a whole other can of worms.

No, she hadn't - what makes me laugh now is that she is a nanny/childminder so she while still doesn't necessarily have the full 24hr child experience, I hope the amount of work/ effort involved was a good lesson for her.

Agreed, it wasn't til I started trying for a baby/ fell pregnant that I realized how difficult even that whole process is, how terrifying it is. Like the constant fear that something would happen or go wrong. I admit though that I am doubly paranoid because my sister already lost one. And just for those reasons I can totally understand not wanting to go through with it. Children and babies are difficult enough, but I think it doesn't occur to people sometimes about the whole emotional side of things as well.

yeah I mean I don't think about it day to day but yes I spent most of my pregnancies worried and that is reasonably normal considering how much can go wrong, and I hear 90% of women do worry about the health of the pregnancy at some point during. However originally I thought oh it will be okay once shes here coz then I can watch her and etc etc, but realistically even after birth there's the worry of things like SIDS and all sorts of other problems. But like I said I am paranoid, I think once a family looses a child it warps your whole experience of these things.

I love kids but I don't want my own. I like my freedom.

I really hate people who choose to have kid and won't or can't afford to take proper care of them.

How do you feel about children? Mostly I just feel indifferent to them. I am at jobtraining at a schoollibrary, where I also moslty dont have much to do with the kids, but when I do I tend to feel a bit awkward for some reason. Think it might just be my lack of selfesteem that bothers me there.
Do you intend to have any? No, not unless I find a partner I love very much that have a kid/kids, or want kids. I have always said that if I should want a kid it shoould be a partners child, or an adopted child.
Do you already have any? No, and I most likey wont ever. At least not of my own genes, as getting pregnant can litterally kill me. Thanks to me having suffered 2 strokes in the brain.


How do you feel about people who choose not to have them, or choose to have several? I dont mind people haing children, as long thy can afford the child and I feel they can take proper care of it. My own sister just a week ago told me that she is expecting a child due April, which had me in tears of joy for her sake, as she before had had 2 miscarriages/abortions ( the fosters died, but was to far evolved for the body to want to get rid of it itself, so had to go the hospital way... at least from what I understood on her. ) I'm sure she will be a great and supportive mother, as she really rally wat a kid of her own.