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so if you try to blame us you're wrong.

Bollocks. It "started" for me, anyway, by hearing coworkers ranting unprovoked about how horrid children are, and how they (the coworkers) didn't understand how anyone could let snotty-nosed, poopy little brats mess up their perfect little yuppie lives. It's probably best that these juvenile, immature, small minded creeps don't reproduce, though entirely too many of them resort to abortion to ensure that they aren't inconvenienced. Still, it's sad that otherwise intelligent people think and behave this way. Maybe you're not like my ex-coworkers. I hope not. Still, it's really easy to decide you don't want children at age 25. It's awfully difficult to do anything about it if you decide you do want them at age 50.

Go ahead and call me an arrogant b@stard if you like. I'm used to it.

"It's probably best that these juvenile, immature, small minded creeps don't reproduce, though entirely too many of them resort to abortion to ensure that they aren't inconvenienced."

Right. If they feel that strongly about it, they should have themselves "fixed". I didn't want any more than three.
Now my tubes are tied to help ensure that.

Well some kids are horrid. Not sure how your coworkers conversation started but I know department stores and malls serve as frequent reminders as to why I don't want kids. And I too often wonder why people would allow their kids to become snot nosed little brats, this isn't to say I wonder why people have kids (though that too confuses me) but certainly if you're going to have kids the first lesson would be manners in and proper behavior for public places. Anybody that regularly goes to public locations and sees how the kids behave knows that most parent never teach those lessons. It's important to seperate why people don't like kids they encounter in public from why (or even whether) they don't want kids at all; a lot of the language might be the same but the intent is different.

Nah, if I reconsidered at 50 I already outlined what I'd do: join Big Brothers. There are a lot of ways one can nurture and excercise the paternal instinct without having children. If someone's reason for having kids is truly based on love and a desire to share and nurture whose genes make the kids won't matter to them.