Why don’t some people want to have children?

Is not wanting children selfish? maybe it’s sometimes the result of a person’s deepest questions about life?

“You’ll eventually have children.”

Many of us have heard this phrase many times.

Sometimes from family.

Sometimes from friends.

Sometimes from colleagues.

And sometimes even from strangers who imagine that every person’s life should follow a certain path:

Education.

Career.

Marriage.

Children.

But not everyone chooses this path.

Some people decide not to have children.

Not because they can’t.

Not because “the time hasn’t come yet.”

Rather, because they don’t want to be parents at all.

And perhaps the more interesting question is:

Why?

First, let’s understand an important distinction

Not everyone who doesn’t have children is “childfree.”