I lost my son in a car accident along with his father, many years ago. Occasionally I feel sad that I never had another child, but I try not to dwell. I accept the life that I have, as a loving aunt and godmother. 😔

i am childless and it is good. i made the decision to forgo children when i was 26 . i just sat down thought it out and realized "not for me" Even factored it into dating. Always quick to say "don't want kids" to dates when I was in my 20 and 30's Figured I owed them that information right up front or at least really early on.

I did have an interesting conversation once, with a deeply religous person when I was in my 20's. I told him I decided not have kids and his response was you're selfish. I absorbed what he said, did not argue with him and decided later to a large degree he was right.

25 plus years later i still have my hobbies, i get more "me time" than any parent I know. i have had more side projects, than most people my age. I don' t have (or want) any kids to take to soccer karate, or anything else. When I leave work I don't have dad duties . It does have a selfish componet to it. It seems like many if not most parents, main hobby, often by their own choice, main hobby is parenting. It is something that is good for them. ...but so much for me.

On a sidenote I like the vector @beermeplease is on. I have 3 cats and I love them so much I have had a numbers dogs (now cats) and as a non parent they get a lot of attention I would have given to a child(s).

There are moments where I feel how I'm missing out on the family love, the warmth, the good days.
I think pregnancy, child birth and feeding a baby from your own body is quite a thing to experience, despite all the difficulties.. to experience your body doing this magical work on its own.. And the connection you get with another human, that you created an offspring.

Then I am sipping my coffee, practising my qigong, my art and basically having arranged my life in a way to experience what my parents couldn't provide me, happiness, joy, lightness and appreciation of being. Family life was extremely chaotic and I feel like I have exceeded the chaos I can endure in a single lifetime.

I like it quiet and peaceful. Though I love children's innocent eyes, freshness, laughter, light. It is what it is... And I am good the way things have turned out.

i'm ok with not ever having kids but sometimes i feel guilty for not making my mother a grandmother. i think i would have made a pretty good dad....life is good now with my "baby"

I'd have liked a son but it didn't happen, it hasn't affected me in a big way but i do feel that I missed out on taking a son to football, fishing, camping etc

It is very good, thankyou!

I've a tribe of nephews and neices, some with the "great" prefix, and that's enough for me!

I still can have kids but have no desire and given the circumstances, it would be a terrible idea. Even less desire now when I saw my sister in law taking care of my niece.

I feel free with no real commitments. If I decided to pack my stuff and start a new life somewhere else, I could.

Having kids can be a struggle, but it's worth it in the end.

I made a conscious decision for my future when I embarked upon entrepreneurial business ownership at 19 years of age, that having children would not be a part of my chosen lifestyle, nor could it be.

I like kids, but I only like other people's kids. I travel a lot with my business and I stay in a lot of hotels and I meet with a lot of interesting business clients both male and female, but having to deal with children of my own would simply not fit into that mix and I've always known that.

To contribute something to society that does involve children, I volunteer one afternoon a week of my time to hang out with terminally ill teenagers who are spending their last days on this earth living in a hospital, where I share my life experiences with them and talk about life as well as the afterlife as we all imagine it to be. The reason I volunteer my time with them is because their own parents don't. I rest my case.

I have always had a great life even as a teenager when I thought life sucked when I couldn't get my own way. And today, I couldn't ask for anything that I didn't already have. Money, though sparse at one point in my journey when I first got started in business, is now a non-issue, though I consider myself to be a minimalist anyway which means I need even less than I thought I did!

There are those who were born to be natural parents and there are those who became parents who had absolutely no business raising children of their own.

The difference between the two is knowing which category you fit into and not lying to yourself that you could easily do the opposite journey just as easily...

There are too many parents on this earth who suck at being parents and I will admit that I'm probably one of them, though I will never know for sure, but at least I won't lie to myself and pretend otherwise in the meantime.

My life is going well. Healthy, happy, and financially secure.

My life is fine, I don't think about having children at all. I've been told that I won't have anyone to look after me in old age but that seems like a cynical and selfish reason to have children.

Never had any luck with women so no kids for me. My 4 Frenchies are my kids now.

If I were young again, I wouldn’t have kids..what about u?

Great!

No regrets.

None.

I had a horrible childhood and I knew at an early age I never wanted to be a father.

Thinking that I don't have to struggle financially to sustain another one or two people, be stuck with a sh*tty job that I couldn't afford to lose, or even get wrecked by a divorce gives me peace in life

We couldn't. Life is pretty good. My wife's health has suffered the last couple of years. Fortunately she is improving now. 🙂

So much better off!

I don’t know it any other way.