Well, since you aren't solely an animal, no your life isn't meaningless if you refrain from having children. You're welcome to change your mind in the future, or adopt if you feel there genetic disadvantages that you don't want to risk passing to the next generation.

We're no longer in the Middle Ages, or in a situation where the population level demands women be constant baby factories. It's up to you to determine what meaning, if any, your life has. No one else gets to decide that for you.

Of course not. I hate when people spew the nonsense that children=fufillment/purpose. Kids are more or less 18 years plus of busy work and stress whom their parents will screw up in someway regardless of their quality. I am not opposed to the idea of kids its just that theres plenty of other meaningful things one can do with their lives. Having a kid does not = purpose and is simply living proof you've had sex. Meaning and person is subjective. Kids can be a wonderful thing but never forget that they are essentially whiny, selfish creatures who eat your food, spend your money, and are ungrateful for all your work for the most part.

Kids are cute and all and we are genetically hardwired to propagate ourselves as a species, but frankly... who cares? If a women wants to live her life never having to be responsible for another living soul she's perfectly within her rights. It's not like there is some pressing need to reproduce for survival anymore. So if a women doesn't want to have a kid that's perfectly alright with me, no one can dictate to you what has meaning to your life but yourself.

GIRL POWER!

how so?

i'm just wondering why.

Even if I was allowed to have children (my disease says nope don't have them), I wouldn't want them. It's your choice and your body. If someone feels like you are less than for not having a big family, then that's their problem and skewed opinion. Some people feel more complete with a huge family. I feel more complete with a nice house and nice things that kids aren't gonna ruin.

Hey, don't go around posting pictures of me.

Your life could be pointless even with children.
You need to find what YOUR meaning is. For some people that is children sure, even if adopted just in the hopes they are remembered by someone.
The longer you wait to find this though the harder it is to find. Good luck.

I feel a somewhat of a traditionalist, sexist feel to this question. A woman is a human, and humans seem to make their own goals to life, so obviously there would be more to life to a woman than mere children. How silly.

Kids are time consuming and expensive (and I'm not just talking about college. Diapers and baby products--what do they put IN those things to make them so expensive?! You have to feed them, buy clothes for them, children are real money drainers).

I'll also throw this out there: I work as a paralegal (I assist an attorney) and I mainly deal with family law. In other words, DIVORCE. I have seen VERY MESSY ones. Kids and real property (houses and that sort of thing) really complicate things. It might not be too surprising that that has only reinforced my thought that I NEVER want kids, nor do I ever want to get married. Too many things can go wrong and I don't want to put myself through that. And I've never wanted to have kids anyway. I have heard the speal, "Oh, you never know." I'm 31. If I haven't found "The One" by now, it's not gonna happen and I'm perfectly happy with that. I have no tolerance for children so I don't think I'd be a very good parent anyway. With the way the news is these days (financial cutbacks to schools, gangs, school rules that seem a bit crazy to name a few), I'm glad I DO NOT have kids.

If you can find "The One," stay in a happy marriage, have kids, and be a good parent, more power to you. If you can be a single parent, I applaud your courage because that must be super tough. I'm 31 and I have no desire whatsoever to have kids. I couldn't support them financially, I hate loud things (that would include kids), and am quite content as I am. I really do not think a woman's life is pointless without kids. As was pointed out before, a man's life is not pointless if he chooses to not have children, so the same rules apply to women. You shouldn't have kids just because everyone ELSE wants you to. Having kids is YOUR decision. (And NOT something you should decide on lightly either.) If for some reason I wake up one day and decide I want a kid, there's always adoption.

Ok.... I'm 12
I'm shy around guys cant talk to them and I mean I cant I stutter (I act normal though around my dad and brothers but not people related to me idk why???)
I'm scared of thinking about what you have to do to have children... I still don't know... wont ask my ask parents...
this reason makes me not wanna have children but I love kids even though I'm a kid myself.... so basicly ill adopt? Lol.... My school dosen't have reproducing classes and all that but I don't think about this stuff often......ok.... I do....

I've luckily never had this happen to me, but for anyone to say a woman needs to have children is disillusioned by society and old fashioned gender roles. I personally don't want to have children, even though I do fine with children, I just don't think I would be that great of a parent. No one has the right to tell woman that life would be meaningless without having children.

You don't need to worry so much about that right now, hopefully your parents will be smart enough to tell you the changes your body will go through as you get older. Whether you decide to have kids or not is entirely up to you, no one else has the right to make that choice for you.

Thankyou
Finally I posted what i've been thinking for a while.....

Make it simple on yourself, you're 12.
Enjoy being 12 and being a kid.. you won't be for very long.
All that other stuff comes later, there's no reason to rush it.