shakran

I don't think a part of you is broken at all. You don't want kids. Someone else does. Nothing wrong with either person anymore than there's something wrong with me for wanting a Honda rather than a Chevy.

I think society has placed far too much emphasis on children-as-a-requirement. I've lost count of the number of people who have told me "you'll feel differently when YOU have kids" (uh, no I won't, because I won't be having any, thank you). I've been told I'm selfish because I don't want to have kids. Still haven't figured out what the hell that's supposed to mean.

People are entirely too kidcentric. If you have kids, that's great (provided you actually raise them to be responsible people rather than let them run wild like most parents do these days). If you don't have kids, hey that's great too. By not having kids you are sentencing yourself to a life in which you have more disposable income than you would otherwise, a life in which you can go out any time you want on a moment's notice because you don't have to find a sitter, a life in which you can sit at home at night doing what YOU want to do rather than picking up after a kid, a life in which you do not have to perpetually fight a school district trying to make them actually educate your kid rather than sitting him in a classroom to be bored all day. In short, your life's gonna be great.

Besides, statistically, childfree couples are happier on average than couples that have kids.

Raising kids is HARD work if you do it right (and most don't), and if you're unwilling to make a minimum 18 year committment to HARD work with NO vacation days, NO weekends, NO time off, NO set hours (raising kids ain't 9-5 like most jobs folks) and NO pay, and NO recognition (how many times have we heard "does your wife work or stay at home with the kids - - as though staying at home with the kids isn't harder work than a 40 hour a week job), then more power to you. That's your choice, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it.