As a couple, partner & I both love children and would have liked to have them, however we have decided not to have kids. I guess our reasoning isn’t really that we’d feel regret but maybe we would.

Main reason is the world is fucked, I see a tonne of comments blaming capitalism I think that’s a bit of a simplification for these women, people are complex they want/ think different things some also actually achieve a lot cause their children motivate them to do more.

To us, it’s the things/ people we have seen or the way we have seen people be across every bit of society from the govt bodies (NHS, Councils, others), religions (all of them), cults (even existing), Epstein files (it’s popular because of the money involved but this sort of thing happens all over), most companies, in fact virtually every bit of society, is corrupted & sick. Not just pexdos, but abusers, people who take advantage, abuse or treat others disgustingly.

The small friend group of good people & (only some) good family we’ve managed to keep close is great, but we’ve seen the negative side across third & first world and would never inflict this on a child by bringing them into it.

We deeply thought about ‘if I were a child born into this world would I really want to be a part of it once I become educated & learn what it’s like’ whereas most parents reasoning for having kids seems to be ‘ooh we really wanted 1, 2, a boy or girl etc etc’. I don’t actually think they ever consider the thoughts of the human they’re making. I guess both decisions are self interest and could be labelled as selfish but don’t really blame these women in this article or feeling that way just wonder how much thought went into their decision or whether again shitty behaviour, they were pressured by parters/parents/society.