Unwanted Parenthood Quotes

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare.

I grew up thinking, 'You go to university, you get your degree, you get a job, you get married and then you have a family.' But when I got to the point in my life where I had all those things, and was looking to start a family, I was miserable. I realised I didn't want kids.

I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.

I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

I didn't sign on to be a mom.

By no means do we think, 'Oh, it's cool to be a teen mom.' I definitely don't think that it's cool.

There are things you're supposed to learn in life. My biggest regret was terminating a pregnancy when I was about 18. Every day, I think about who that baby would be now; it still makes me sad.

My mom never wanted to be a grandmom. She never wanted to be a mom, really.

It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

Bizarrely, I've been called selfish for not having children. Surely it's more selfish to have a child when you don't really want a child?

I don't think anyone imagines themselves being a single parent. But I don't have a choice.

I'd heard about people having miscarriages when they were trying for babies, but my situation was very different. What happens if you weren't trying for a baby?

I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

I have one little pooch-y stomach in a picture, and all of a sudden I'm pregnant.