Is it Selfish Not to Have Kids?

Society teaches us it is.

Miss Li and Miss Rain, practicing with their maternal instincts. Image created by author.

I was on the phone with my mother the other day and we started talking about someone I knew who had gotten “the fix” without having had any kids yet.

“I just can’t understand that,” she said. “Like, maybe you have one kid and you’re like, no way am I going to do this again, but how can you decide there’s no way you’re going to have any…