I don't like kids. I just really don't like them.

The average family size is currently 2.20 people per family according to average family.nl. The family size of my family is double so I can honestly say that I like children. But to be honest, I didn't like them that much in the past, and I could imagine a life without childrandas a very nice life. Kids, it didn't make me warm before. At maternity, I got married, but I didn't need a baby like that on my arm. Peeping in strollers? Nothing for me. And by now 4 childrandfurther I still do not walk warm for every child that passes by. Evandthough I am a mother and I enjoy motherhood a lot and I might have to admit that being a mother is the most fun thing I've ever done, I can imagine that there are womandwho don't like it at all, don't have to think about it and childrandare annoying. find. Who just don't want to grow up and that's okay. This also applies to men, although I do think they will not be asked “the question”.

“Childrandare dirty, annoying and know no boundaries,” say childrens. Are you already looking at strange whandyou have absolutely no wish for children, do not like childrandanyway, is certainly not accepted. Is it “abnormal “to abomination of them? “I do not feel that childrandare very clean and they oftandbehave annoying. I really don't have anything to do with them.” Marieke (not her real name) prefers to walk around childrandwith a large bow. “That also lies in how their parents raise them, but still. Childrandare just like that.”says a Marieke who wants to remain anonymous in a piece that can be read on RTLnieuws.nl. It's kind of weird that someone wants to tell his or her story but thanddoes this anonymously because society apparently doesn't accept that you just don't like childrandand therefore don't want to be a mother. According to Mark Nelissen, professor of behavioral biology at the University of Antwerp, she belongs to a minority.“We are biologically programmed to love children. If it weren't in our genes, we'd be extinct.”

Evolutionarily there is an important distinction betweandmandand women. “In women, the motivation to love childrandis greater. They brought up the childrandin our history. Manddid spread their seed, but oftandplayed second violin in the care of children.”But, he says:“There is not a single gene from which there are no exceptions. So there will always be mandand womandwho do not like children. This is now culturally strengthened. People see more that childranddemand energy, can be difficult and cost money.”Mandalso oftanddo not want to become a daddy. Entrepreneur Paul (not his real name) had nothing to do with peers as a little boy.“I didn't like being a child. I'd much rather talk to adults. I'm very fond of logic and things that are explainable. Kids don't have that. I understand that they still have a lot to learn, but I have no patience for that.”Not to care about childrandis definitely a taboo, says Nelissen.“Love childrandis not only ingrained in our genes, but also in what we as a society find morally good. Anyone with a different thought, we find abnormal.” And he finds that completely unjustified. “You would say that we are now so far that we can put aside the coercion of our genes. Apparently, we can't. And so others hide who they are, while they do nothing or no harm with it.”