If you never raise kids in your life; that means you didn't appreciate the experience you had and do not want another human to experience it.

Or are they just playing the i'm lazy card or what is their reason for it?

Question is not that you should go have a child but raise a child like what happened to you. Or do people have their reason that they can't raise a child so they don't?

Just wondering.

Thinking there is one answer for a group of people as diverse as those who choose not to have children is a mistake.

What? It's just a yes or no question I think.

If you ask what people's reason is for not having kids how can they answer yes or no?

I'm not asking for what their reasons are for not having kids.
The questions above are just yes or no questions is what i mean.

People would just answer yes or no and I could see if there is any pattern by number amount.

What is the question? There are two in your OP.

No.

Hope that helped.

All of the people that I know that do not have children have absolutely made the best choice for themselves and for their potential children.

Unfortunately, I can't say the same thing going the other direction.

Example not my own, only 24 years old:

No

No

Yes, reason ...


You missed some of the questions, grammar error in above post, my bad.

I don't see how it would imply you didn't appreciate your experiences, don't want other humans to experience it, or are lazy. There are surely some in the third category, but has to be a small number who didn't appreciate being raised (abusive parents, say) and almost noone who doesn't want other humans to be raised well.

Yah sort of want to know the general reasoning for people...

How is this a religious question?

No.
No.
Yes. My reason?

Because I'm happy.

To adopt similar reasoning to yours:

The reason people have kids is because they have no meaning in their life, and need something to give them meaning. They need something (anything) to momentarily lift them out of the pit of despair that they've dug for themselves.

Their children grow up and all of a sudden they're miserable sods again.
Some even stay miserable the whole time.
We don't envy them.

I'm definitely not ruling out children in the future. For now my reasons for not wanting kids are:
I don't want to ruin the stability and general comfort of my life right now (kids take a lot of time, money, and effort to raise properly)
I don't think I'd make a particularly good father right now (many reasons, but mostly I think a key aspect of being a good parent is wanting to be a parent)

Kids are dirty, sticky, germ infested, irritating, infuriating, stressful, time consuming, and expensive little ****s. Most people seem to decide that all the other stuff outweighs this and will make them happy and/or proud. But you're really asking why people have preferences. And the answer is because they do.

The general reason people choose to have kids is because they want to. The general reason people choose not to have kids is because they don't want to.

I think it's worth noting that a sad percentage of the US population (with children) never chose to have kids. They chose to have sex. And their dopey religion told them no contraception and no abortions.

I'm more interested in reading a response from someone that could easily afford raising kids but chooses not and why.

It is pretty easy to sit here, give general assumptions of why it may be so but to actually commit is another thing. I would think that someone that has a decent salary, stable great relationship and never raises children would have an interesting reason why they didn't raise a child.

Idk it seems like a big life event to pass on.

I would be willing to bet that at least 8 out of 10 times its because they're happy.

So for you happiness is -EV or +EV for raising a child when already happy.

I'm going to guess 90%+ of all kids are the result of accidents and/or the traditional thing to do.

I guess ideally, kids are for people who have some kind of inheritance to pass on, or legacy to maintain, and maybe like life?

Since the U.S. government has been an utter failure (for the English and their descendants), where only a few are wealthy with the rest fighting to be their house slaves, birthrates have dropped.

No, No.

Bold bit suggests implicit false dichotomy.

Chance - just never happened without particularly trying or not trying.

Edit: BTW what has this got to do with RGT?

Both are questions so I don't believe it classifies as a false dichotomy.

Thread has nowhere else to go on this board, so I ended up putting it in RGT and it sort of has some connection to RGT depending on the person.
Sort of funny that people find the need to ask why is it in RGT like person on page 1 that just posted that question and nothing else.

If English isn't OP's native tongue, I apologize, but I can't tak seriously a question and thread title that is so grammatically awful.

Are you asking only about those who had a bad experience being raised as a child, or also about any adults who were raised fine, but still decided they don't want to bring a new child into the world? I might fall into that category actually.

Beyond "Just wondering", what do you think you can derive from any answers?

Yah thread is a mess from the beginning lol.

@BeaucoupFish
Thread is not aimed in focusing any set of people but for gaining knowledge by seeing the responses from people that decided to not raise a child.