Am I a bad person because I don't want to get married and have children?

No you are not bad at all, in fact I admire you. Just because you are a female does not mean you are required to have children. As you get older you may find yourself in relationships with men, but that does not mean you have to get married to them. My daughter, who is now 23, is following the same path you have set out on. Although she has been in a couple of relationships she has no intention of being married. About a year ago she had her tubes blocked so she will not get pregnant, and she is now in medical school. She does like dogs, but being in school has no time to take care of them, so that will have to wait until she gets into a practice of her own. Good luck to you and do not listen to those who try to tell you what you will do. You can have sex without having children.

I'm about to be 23 and I am a single mom with two daughters ages 4 & 2 and I'm about to give birth to my first son in a matter of weeks. I get the same responses when you ask a question. People are so ignorant. I'm a college educated woman, I work in a law office and I take great care of my children. I receive no help from the state and nor their father outside of child support. So I get ticked off because it's like people you don't know me nor my situation why things are this way. don't judge me because i'm sure that thing aren't all peaches and cream on the other side of the computer screen. I just hold my head up high because most of the people out here haven't walked a mile in shoes are lived my life. so to hell with them.

It doesn't make you a bad person. I don't think you can say for certain what life will bring you in the future, but if those are your plans for now, I would say "these are my plans unless something monumental changes my mind." I have a friend who went and had her "tubes cut, tied, and burned" when she was 21-22. She said if she wants a child, she will adopt and she seems to be happy with that decision so far. As far as marriage, that is also a personal decision. Some people do get married and some don't. It is your life and your choice.

Of course not. Better no to have kids or a husband you don't really want due to peer pressure. My sister is a loner and not cut out for family life, that's fine with me.

Though you sound very young, I was sure I did not want kids, just pets until I hit about 28, then boy did the clock start ticking. Which was good, because I wouldn't have been ready in my early twenties. On the other hand, many of my friends who wanted kids have become pretty ambivalent about it, now in our thirties I am one of the only ones with a child. Life is funny that way. So never say never.

I had two aunts like you and they're perfectly happy with the plethora of pets. On the flip side my husband always told me (back when we were just friends) that he was going to be single forever and be a hermit at 80. He proposed to me 3 years later haha. Whatever you decide just know that the person you are today will be very different from who you are a few years from now. So don't be disappointed if you find yourself scouting out potential husbands.

No not a bad person..But i do wonder how old you are. I use to say the same thing, i was going to be a doctor and never marry and NEVER have children, just didn't feel like my thing. But down the road i changed, i fell in love, and eventually wanted children, and you may also, and that's okay your aloud to change your mind :) but for now do what you want! and what you feel is right for you!

No, that does not make you a bad person. Some people like the single life and there is nothing wrong with that!

For today that is your dream and those are your goals. NEVER EVER LET ANYONE STOP YOU FROM DREAMING YOUR DREAMS you go girl and when and if the time is right you may change your mind.

of course it doesn't make you a bad person. it's your life and you can live the way you want to. never let anyone tell you how you are suppose to live.

That sounds lonely I hope someone special changes your mind for you.