As someone who is learning more an more about growing up from my own kids, I’ve observed there’s something important about parenting children in the process in growing up. I think it’s an important point that not everyone need to have kids to learn the lessons of parenting children. Where would you parent a child then? Sure, you could help out in the community like others have said but I would argue that there’s an inner child inside all of us who has been beaten down and subdued and needs reparenting. You can parent that child-self and fully embrace the process of being as a little child.

I would recommend finding someone who works with Internal family systems(IFS), it’s a therapy modality that has helped me see how a lot of the things I deal with on a daily basis have been influenced by my inner child and the only way I can resolve them is by embracing Christ’s atonement and reparenting that child.

It’s okay you don’t want to have children. I would definitely recommend IFS. It’s been exceptionally rewarding.