I’m a 35-year-old woman. Here is why I am choosing not to have kids.
Everyone's reasons will be different, but this is mine.
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Your negative view on family creation is saddening. You have let modern culture/media convince you career and climate change are valid reasons.
I wish you the best while I pity you.
Thanks for sharing the perspective of children-free women (although I'm taking 1 step further because I'm voluntarily single). I find that people who have (un)happily formed families tend to be very loud about everyone around them also making the same choices as them, when in reality I don't think many men or women really fully appreciate how lucky they are to be born in a time when you can have choices not to be partnered or with child, simply by virtue of the fact that we are in such a prosperous time that one does not need to be forced into having a family purely for survival.
Also off topic, but if the declining demographic was of such grave concern to the government, they should explore options for helping single women give birth without forcing them into marriage. At the moment not only are fertility treatments such as egg-freezing expensive, the use of these eggs to get pregnant is illegal if she is not married. If the social construct of marriage is more important than the actual demise of the population & the concept of agency with one's body, then really this point on declining TFR should not even be brought up to convince child-free couples to have children cos it's clearly not a serious enough problem to society.