I was pretty sure I never wanted to have kids, but my first job (as a childcare assistant in a day care center, at age 14) made me absolutely certain that no child would ever emanate from my loins.
There was a period of about 10 minutes during a college course on human sexuality that I thought it would be wonderful to have a baby. Then my sanity returned.
I don’t hate children. I love my nieces, and any other kid who behaves better than a barnyard animal. I simply don’t want to have any of my own.
