![]() “I don’t think I will, but I suppose I’m open to persuasion. Then there’s the environment, but if I’d really wanted children, I don’t think that would have stopped me.”Īt 39, Kate constantly questions her decision, in case she changes her mind. I also don’t think I’d be able to do what I do in terms of my career and social life if I had children. “It’s not that I don’t like kids – I do – but I can’t imagine nurturing one all the time. ![]() To Kate, it’s more complex than not feeling maternal and she has experienced what she sees as every possible reason for not wanting children. ![]() I come from a long line of unmaternal women – but my mother and grandmother had more pressure on them to procreate,” she says. My mum even joked about not being maternal and said her mum wasn’t either. Apparently, aged three, I announced to bemused relatives that I didn’t want to have children. “Not having children is as ingrained as my sexuality and I can’t remember a time when I didn’t feel it. Stand-up poet and writer Kate Fox feels the same her comedy show Good Breeding, about a child-free life, played at last year’s Edinburgh Festival and has been adapted for Radio 4, to be broadcast next spring. She has never felt the urge to be a mother. She is happy for her family to be just her husband and herself. But our friend, I’ve since discovered, has simply chosen not to have children. ![]()
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