Why I don't want to have children.

[Jamastiene]

54. I respect that decision and your reason for it.

For the longest time, I didn't want to have children because I didn't want the responsibility AND I didn't want to pass on the mental health misery my family suffers from along with the physical problems that run in my family really bad. Almost everyone in my family gets heart disease really young and super high cholesterol even from a very young age, not from eating habits, the hereditary kind and most of us are on Zoloft for depression. It's awful. I wouldn't want to make a mini-me. I might like the kid, but the kid would go through hell just to live their life. I wouldn't want to put anyone through that.

Then, when I paid my house off, I began wanting children. It is too late though, for me. I would not want to have a child without being married. I have seen how hard it is on single parents trying to raise a kid alone, especially when that parent is right at the poverty line and lives in impoverished areas like where I live. It is also too late because it is too late for me to find someone who would be willing to marry me. Even if I could find someone who could stand putting up with me, I would still need a sperm donor who would be willing to offer us a turkey baster full of critters.

I might would adopt if a miracle happened and someone ever would be willing to marry me, but miracles don't seem to happen for heathens like me, lol.

I respect your decision though. For a long time, that played into my decision not to have a kid too.