Why I don't want to have children.

[linuxman]

87. We plan on having children.

Then again, we're not nearly as Malthusian as some can be.

We'd never think to denigrate someone for choosing not to have kids though. Frankly, having or not having children is nobody's business but the couple's. Be that as it may, there are always a few in this thread that can't help but talk about how the ones having children are ushering in the fall of civilization from the lofty perch of their cross.

My soon to be wife and I have talked about having children at length. We know what's right for us. We're well educated, (comparatively) well off, and conscientious people. According to some, we should forgo having kids to offset the families out there that don't have the sense to stop at a reasonable number (say, oh, maybe the amount you can expect to be able to feed and clothe?). That doesn't sit right with me. If the future depends on the children we have today, how is it that by refusing to have kids that we are somehow saving the future by ensuring that the only children born are to be from families with no sense of propriety in regard to the future themselves?

I don't see raising no children as a superior alternative to raising conscientious/smart children. Then again, childless couples rank somewhere alongside cornmeal in the long list of thoughts that dominate my daily thoughts and concerns.