I tell my friends I don't want kids because I don't like them. They all just think it's something I'll grow out of and I know it isn't. I find it really annoying that they give me that knowing look saying that I'm young and I'll like my own kids. I'm certain I wont. I've always been afraid that if I had any kids I'd do to them what was done to me and I would never forgive myself if that happened. I could never harm a child and it sickens me that my mother let her kids be harmed.
I get the same looks of haughty derision and the "You'll change your mind some day." It's not likely. I love kids, but I don't love them enough to have my own. Because I don't want kids, people think that makes me less of a woman. I disagree. With that being said, just because I don't want my own doesn't mean that I wouldn't be with someone who has kids. If that makes any sense
I agree. I don't want kids. I want the perks that come with kids, but not kids. That's why I am satisfied with being "Aunt Sarah". I get the cuddly oooh a baby moments, with out the dirty diapers, the aww, these kids are playing recorded in the school play! with out the practice time at home, and I get to see them graduate high school and college with out having to pay for high school or college. the only perk missing is the Tax Deduction, but in the long run, the tax deduction isn't much compaired to the cost of taking care of a miniature me, so again, I am satisfied without offspring.
I always get the "OMG you're running out of time!!" speech because I'm nearly 30 and haven't had a kid yet. If I want children later on, I'll adopt. It's a long, expensive, difficult process, but at least I'll have made a conscious, well thought out decision to raise a child, rather than throwing myself into it because my biological clock is ticking.
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