Can someone explain why people want to have children?

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People want to have children I think because it's the norm. You meet someone and you want a family. My cousin enjoys being a mom. She is an NT though. I'm just few years younger than her, but I never thought about wanting to have a child. I did babysit children when I was in high school, but didn't have the patience at all. Still I don't have patience at all. I can't conceive a child anyways because of a medical condition which would make it extremely painful.

Biological imperative. New humans are neccessary for our species to survive.

its very logical that people want to have children. if people dont want to have children that kind of people dont have children and die out. so folowing from this every person that hasnt died out or isnt doomed to die out has children. it might seem impractical having children but the urge to have them is only natural.

I don't want kids. I like my life how it is. Having a child involved would disrupt the environment I've created for myself. If I had kids, how can I pursue what I want to? So much of my time would have to be invested in them. Plus, I'd be a terrible parent. I think of all the things my parents had to do while parenting, and frankly, I don't want nothing to do with it.

As Pro-life as I am, I'm too much of a rebel to be a mother. I stay away from sex, all together.

I like children, I like introducing them to new things, reading to them, teaching them stuff when they're interested. But lately, the following scenario pops into my head and I hate it:
An NT child who takes advantage of my AS, is rude, scornful, hurtful, and would basically make me think that I'm back in junior high, except I'm being tormented by my own kid. THAT would render me a woman with nothing left to lose, which means I become a very dangerous person. Junior high was a horrible experience, and for it to come full circle like that would take away my will to live.

breeding spreads the virus that is humanity

lol

...but seriously, i have said it before and i will say it again; humans breed with seemingly little concern for the impact that we have on the environment in our immediate vicinity and for the earth as a whole. people need to better consider their immediate and long term responsibility over and above the crazy notion that it is our right to breed as much as we can - and the even wackier (read: selfish) idea that if we cannot afford to do so we can go ahead because someone else will pick up the tab for us.

it is not just the generation that we bring into the world that will have a great impact, but every child that is conceived by them and following generations and so on. every single individual consumes petrochemicals in the form of wrapping/packaging, synthetic materials for clothing, plastics, fuel for heating, fuel for transport... crops for food and textiles, livestock for meat and leather products... and so on. we are the greatest consumers on the planet, more people means more consumption, more pollution, more deforestation, more extinction.

the earth is a closed system with limited resources, we are the most technologically advanced species on the planet and it is our responsibility to act as custodians - to protect the world and the environment for every living creature, this means birth control as much as it does reducing the soot that billows from smoke stacks and from truck exhausts. it is not so much curbing breeding on a whim as it is making an important and conscious decision to contribute to our continued co-existence with all other life on the planet.

that is why i have no intention of fathering any children... that and the fact that fatherhood is not something that seems within the realms of possibility in my mind... it's not something that i desire, and not a concept i feel terribly comfortable with.

on a more personal note; fatherhood would mean massive disrupting change in my life, incredible responsibility (emotional and physical) that i am not prepared for, and increased potential for hurt and loss - two things that i do not cope particularly well with or understand.

For those that get it, no explanation is necsary, for those that dont, no explination is possible