People who don't want kids are lucky.

I think a lot of people want kids because they're scared of not being alone in later life.
I want kids when I'm older because I'm extremely maternal and I know I'd be good at it. I want a family and I love family life.
Honestly, I struggle to understand why people wouldn't want children. Not to say I think they should want them, just that I can't relate to it in any way- and that's rare for me because I'm hugely empathetic.

Amen to the first sentence! I decided recently that even if I end up alone in later life, I'll still have a child. There are so many ways in which that can be done nowadays without having a partner - I'll be a single mother if I have to. I just want kids.

It really is

Because if you had even an ounce of maturity, you would have altered your views after listening to what others had to say.

Imagine how depressing it would be for people who never had children, getting to say 50 and just having nobody.

Imagine how depressing it would be for people who never had children, getting to say 50 and just having nobody.

I know right?! That's one of my worries.
That's not to say I want kids just to curb my loneliness because that's not it. But it would be pretty awful reaching that age and being alone.

Most people's wife/husband and siblings/friends/other family members are still alive when they are fifty though. Even their parents! 50 isn't old, I don't see how you could be alone at 50. It's not like everyone you know in your life start dropping dead when you are middle aged. Plus, if that did happen to somebody, they could still adopt a kid at 50.

The burning desire to gift my genome to future generations overcomes any reservations I have about the financial cost. I'm also looking forward to having my kids and grandkids near me in older age.

I'm having four kids.

If you had even an ounce of maturity, you would realize that some people have views and goals in life that are diferent than yours. Not everybody is like you.

You are so hopeless, I will just put you on my ignore list now. Bye.

You are far too young to actually be worrying though, it's like you are having a quarterly life crisis.

I think a lot of people want kids because they're scared of not being alone in later life.
I want kids when I'm older because I'm extremely maternal and I know I'd be good at it. I want a family and I love family life.
Honestly, I struggle to understand why people wouldn't want children. Not to say I think they should want them, just that I can't relate to it in any way- and that's rare for me because I'm hugely empathetic.

I can think of non materialistic ways of using that excess. You could use the excess for charitable good. Or you could just work less. Go 3/4 days a week so you actually have time to enjoy being a human as opposed to being a piece of machinery.

A big problem I have with this debate is that is so geared around the capitalistic lonely society we have created with this obsession with the nuclear family unit being the end all. Even if you never have children of your own you can still help raise children. You may have siblings who have children, you can help with that. You could help at an orphanage, children's hospice or get involved in youth groups. IN this country in the 80s we had fringe mini feminist communal dwellings where single women would help raise up their children together. Society is just so atomised and split up into various divisions of labour that it just crushes a lot of the "natural" human behaviour that isn't just focused around solely looking after and providing your own direct offspring.

Most people's wife/husband and siblings/friends/other family members are still alive when they are fifty though. Even their parents! 50 isn't old, I don't see how you could be alone at 50. It's not like everyone you know in your life start dropping dead when you are middle aged. Plus, if that did happen to somebody, they could still adopt a kid at 50.

People who don't want kids don't have a right to complain about immigration

I don't think you can choose whether you want kids or not.