Oh, for sure it isn't. This is why I have pets.

I don't hate kids at all, and I've had that baby fever before, especially when I hold a little baby, especially when I smell their little head (it's biological--we're supposed to feel that way when we smell them). I just know that I wouldn't be the kind of mother a child needs, and I had a terrible mother, so...yeah. That, and I want to experience different things in life than being a mother. Probably because my mother made it seem like such a hellacious experience for her (which, rationally, I know it's not) that I never got that desire firmly implanted in me. If that all makes sense.

How like a woman to feel she has to explain her lack of desire to have children, as if she's letting society down somehow. I guess it's not really that big a deal. There were people who made me feel guilty for it in my early 20s, and I tend to still have some guilt.