For me, it's primarily because I just can't see the decision to bring a child into this world as anything other than pure folly.

If society was a mess twenty or thirty years ago, then it's worse now than it ever was before. Had I seen the state of the world before being forced out of my mother's womb in 1993 and had any choice in the matter, there's not a doubt in my mind that I would have chosen to not to be a part of this world.

Huge props to you for recognising this and accepting it, plus for having the courage to say it out loud.

There is nothing wrong with you and anyone who feels the need to convince you otherwise is simply rude.

Of course, other arguments are that there are far too many people on this planet already and that we are doing horrible things to it and all the animals and plants that live on/in it.

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We too lost a child to miscarriage and it was horrible. We did have another child a couple years later. Children are an awful lot of responsibility and you cannot do it alone.

I'm sorry that you had a bad experience with being pregnant. I do agree that if you don't want kids, you shouldn't have them. No woman has an obligation to reproduce. After all, it's not as if the human race is an endangered species.

The only point I will make is that you had no maternal bond with your sister's child. That might very well have been different if you had your own.

I don't think you know how many people have not wanted kids but had them anyways.

I don't mind kids if I do or don't have any. I just like to practice a lot ;)