My totally kneejerk, purely personal, non-feminist opinion: I do not like kids. Nothing personal, babies, but I do not find you or your bodily excretions at all adorable. I don’t like the time, commitment, or money you require. I don’t like your lack of boundaries and failure to comprehend rules. I’m also not fond of listening to high-pitched squeals or forcibly removing sharp objects from mouths. If I become a mother, I will probably require frequent sedation.

That said, I’m totally capable of playing and hanging out with children for short periods of time. Kids like me, and I like them, as long as I don’t have to take them home with me at the end of the day! I can understand — intellectually, if not personally — the biological urge to have children, though I don’t think there’s a single non-selfish reason to do so. But hell, if having children makes you happy, go ahead and do it. There are plenty of things we do that are out of self-interest.

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I SO totally agree with her for my stand on having kids man. As I always say, kids are nice, as long as they're not mine. That being, I have guy friends telling me that actually most guys do not like having kids, and that it's the women who want/ like kids.

I was quite surprised at that revelation, seeing as there are so many fathers around. ( not necessarily by choice, of course) I don' think it's so much a matter of money issues anymore when it comes to having children. (Hear that, Singapore Government?) I have heard someone saying that even insurance would give you more definite returns than investing in having kids.

When i see/ hear children in public nowadays, it simply turns me off. This may sound strange, but i never see the good side of present day kids, because they are either running around noisily in trains, screaming their lungs out or crying incessantly.

Yes. I firmly stick to my opinion. So shoot me. You're all free to offer your two cents worth, of course.