When I was 17 I knew that I didn't want to have children. I can't really tell you why. I guess I just didn't have the maternal instinct for human babies. I can honestly say that all my life I really didn't and don't like human babies. I thing it's just something that's lacking within myself. That's not to say that when a friend of mine shows me her baby I don't go goo-goo-gaa-gaa but it's not the same as when I see a dog or a cat. Animals just fill my heart in a way that humans can't.

I'm 51 now and have never regretted my decision not to have children. Children do not make you whole as a person.