childless

I don't have kids. Well, I have step kids, which I helped raise. But I don't own one of my own.
Those teenage years are rough but in general, I really like kids. I just never wanted to be a parent. I'm pretty old now and I still don't regret that decision. I've always known that I didn't want to have one.
When I was 16, the most amazing thing happened. It was a Friday, English class. 1975. We were all caught up so our teacher let us goof off. She even just answered questions from the class. One question was, do you have any kids? She said, no, I don't want children. There was an audible gasp. What?!!?! How can you not want kids?!?! You know what I thought? I thought, OMG! I don't have to have kids??! AWESOME! Whew, cuz I was worried I would have to do that someday. As I got older, and people would want to know why I didn't want kids, I was honest. Because I'm selfish and I don't want to give up all my time. People seem less judgmental about that these days. But, this was the first mainstream article I ever saw about the subject  :-)   :-)   :-)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/voices/the-simple-reason-i-decided-not-to-have-kids-i-just-dont-want-to/ar-BBZpjw4?li=BBnb7Kz