Yes, yes, I know you've all been waiting anxiously in your seats for my response to this thread. The wait is over!
In short, no. Why would anybody want kids? If you have a kid it means you don't get to be one anymore. That's a horrifying thought. The world is your oyster when you are childless. You can do things, be things, accomplish things. That's not to say you can't do that when you have children, but they certainly weigh you down. They're an impediment.
I'm not gonna make you sit through the tl;dr of why I hate kids again. In short, they're sticky, they're messy, they're loud, they're annoying and every one of them that I've met has made me believe in violence. Also, more scary than the idea of having children is the idea of becoming a parent. Once you are a parent, you're not a person anymore. At least not first. You are a parent first and everything else second and that very thought revolts me.
For the tl;dr version of why I don't want to be a parent,
click here!
For my blog on the subject, which I intend to redo at some point because I was new to blogging at that stage and therefore the quality is severely lacking,
click here!
One thing I didn't touch on in either of those is the sense of entitlement parents tend to have just because they're parents. As though they are the A1 first-class citizens of the world because they've produced offspring and they believe everybody should care about their offspring just as much as they do. I hate that, it's an ugly quality in people and I'd hate to see it in myself.
Now Fabio, onto your question of 'how can you know at this point that you will
never want children?' - well, short answer is, you don't. There is no way that even
I know that in ten years I won't change my mind and feel the need to have a child or be a parent or raise something. I know it's not going to happen, because I'm me and I know me better than anybody, but in the grand scheme of things in the world, that is a possibility. Stranger things have happened. But the difference between saying "I will never want kids" and something like "I will never drink alcohol" is that the core argument of "you can't possibly know that until you try it" doesn't hold any water in this case. When it comes to alcohol, if you try it to find out you don't like it - then that's no big deal. You can't just try out a kid. There is no takesies-backsies. If you want a kid, you have to be sure
beforehand, because it's irreversible. Once it's there it's yours to take care of for 18 years whether you like it or not. That's why people are able to make this decision without having tried it lol.
And yes, it is incredibly irritating and patronising when people say "oh you'll change your mind some day",
as you did the last time this topic was brought up :P
Oh dear... this turned out to be a tl;dr after all...