I've seen a lot of discourse about women who don't want to have kids, and I've seen a lot of people try to find some sort of external explanation for why a woman wouldn't want children. The most common of these is the "career" argument, which rubs me the wrong way.

A) It posits that a woman can't have both a career and children. When has anybody ever questioned if a man could have both? In this economy, one salary often isn't enough to support the needs of the household. 

B) Women don't need to have some external reason for not wanting to have children. They don't have to invest all of their time and energy into a career to be justified in their decision. We have a tendency to try to over-explain women's decisions to make them understandable to the opposite sex.

"Because I don't want to" is a valid reason for a woman choosing not to do ANYTHING with her body and it's beyond interesting to me that we don't take that seriously... But that's just food for thought.