[Vicomte13]

Pets and kids just take and take.
Looters! Moochers to the core!

That's why there are none in Ayn Rand's worlds (either her novelistic ones or her real life: she died childless).

[since1868]

And from what I read with noone at her bedside.

[Hank Kerchief]

Ayn Rand had pets of her own, especially one cat who frequently accompanied her when writing.

There are children in Atlas Shrugged, and a very important passage has to do with a mother and her children in Galt's Gulch.

Hank

[Myrddin]

You obviously haven't read "We the Living" yet. It's almost an autobiography. A view into a society crushed by a communist revolution.