Afro Felines

I am a childfree Black woman and my decision to be childfree has zero trauma attached to it. I come from a two-parent household, and my parents have even been married for more than 30 years. I had a decent childhood and was never made to take on adult responsibilities as a kid. When my 7th-grade Geography teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I simply replied with “I am going to be a cat lady”. I do not believe I have ever wanted children. I do not recall having a maternal instinct or feeling something stir deep within me whenever I saw a newborn baby. I have never had a negative attitude towards babies, but I have never had a positive one either. I was simply neutral. When I play video games like the Sims, I always make my characters have big families, but when it comes to having children of my own, I am simply not interested. While the maternal mortality rates for pregnant Black women are extremely alarming, they are not the reason why I am childfree. If someone were t...