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There are hundreds of women including myself who don’t want to ever have kids. Whenever I tell my family or associates that I don’t want to have children, they always seem to look at me differently. Different in a way that makes me feel like something is wrong with me and that having children is an obligation that all women have/need. In a sense, they make me feel guilty. For example, a time that I told a person in my life that I didn’t want children, they directed the conversation to the women who were not able to have children. And I how I should be thankful.( I never said that I wasn’t). I instantly felt terrible the whole day after this. Then other conversations about me not caring about my parents enough to give them grand children. Or how I’ll feel lonely in the end. Or what if my husband or boyfriends wants children ( I’m pretty sure I’ll make it clear before I would even take the relationship into long term). I’m not going to change my mind later either. I like kids, at one point in my life I wanted to be a teacher. And I grew up around a lot of kids, since I have so many cousins. I just don’t want any of my own. Is this so wrong to not want to procreate? Am I less of a woman? Since “women are supposed to have kids, that’s what they were created for” (not my words by the way). Every time I try to discuss this with someone it’s always an one way argument, where no one want to see/understand my point of view.