I don't need no babies! in Boredoms

So, a few weeks ago a had a tiff with my mom who is upset because I do not keep in touch very well. It's nothing personal, really, it's just that I have nothing to say. My life is very stagnant and most developments in it are bad ones. So she gives me a bit about how she's gone through a lot of effort to make sure I'm included in the family and blah blah. I responded with a long email detailing the reasons I don't talk to her very often or hang out with my brother and the kids very often. That side of my family is very vanilla in a lot of ways. When I tell my mom I have no plans to have children she still reacts to it as some raving gibberish from a lunatic.

I've heard about every shitty response to telling someone you don't want children ever. The only response I don't ever hear is: "Oh, okay," Just a lesson to all you pro-family breeders out there. If having kids is something you want, fan-fucking-tastic! Have fun with that. Some of us don't want that! There is no need to push it on us...in fact it's a baffling thing to do. I tell someone I genuinely hate children/babies and they say "Once you have one your attitude will change!" If that's the kind of shit advice you give people, I weep for the future of your children! Do you live in some magical fantasy world where every person is a perfect parent as soon as their baby pops out? Good to know, then. I'm glad child abuse is no longer a thing.

We childless individuals like to use overpopulation as a defense for our decisions (which, by the way, should not need defending). Recently, I got hit back with something to the effect of "most household only have 1-2 children, even having two won't add to overpopulation, just keep the population steady. And having only 1 child would lower it". Let's address this in order: someone get me some census data on average children per household, I refuse to Google it lest Google think I have any interest in parental statistics. Second, if EVERY household had 2 children as, say, replacements for their spot in life then the population would hold steady...in some perfectly controlled environment. Even if that held up somehow, we need reduction not to hold steady.

The last part isn't worth addressing because I'm willing to bet very few couples only have 1 child.

I went off the rails a little bit there. The point I'm trying to make to the breeders is: SHUT UP! Having kids is the worst, that is how I feel about it and you won't change my mind because I'm not such a weak-willed individual that a sugar-coated gush about how magical and rewarding it is to have kids. I'll admit I have no real purpose in my life but that's no reason to just say: "fuck it, I'll have a baby, see if that helps". Let's take my own lack of desire out of the picture, I still got a nice list of reasons babies are not in my future:

1. I have a low income and do not possess enough skill or intelligence (or luck) to get a better job in order to provide for a child.

2. In order to create a child I need, as I understand it, a willing female participant and no woman in her right mind (or any form of mind) would want to make a child with me.

3. I have a couple mental issues most notably depression and anxiety that make it difficult for me to interact with human beings. You try explaining to a kid you don't want to play with it because its voice grates you like sandpaper and the idea of being around it makes you physically ill.

4. Bad genes. I'm short, ugly, fairly stupid, woefully unskilled/talented, clumsy, etc. If you had all that wrong with you and you think to yourself "I want to fuck some child over by making it go through life like that" you're a bad person.

5. I'm just lazy. Too lazy to write down anymore reasons.