I don't like children. That's not quite the same thing as actively disliking them by the way. Most childfree women I know seem to feel the need to stress that even though they don't have kids they love their friends' kids or their nieces and nephews etc. I don't. As far as I can tell my niece and nephew are very nice children and remarkably well behaved (remarkable given the way my brother was as a child and the way he parents) but I have no particular desire to spend time with them. I baby sat my nephew once for around 3 hours when he was about 3 it was insanely tedious. Many of my friends have children. I'm happy to be polite and ask about how their kids are etc and now their children are mostly getting older (into the teens) I'm genuinely interested in hearing what they're up to etc but I don't want to spend any time with their kids.
I find out society's default idea that everyone (well all women anyway) should breed completely baffling. There are so many examples of awful parenting that it's impossible for me to understand why anyone would try and convince another person to become a parent unless they really wanted to (and trust me, it's a thing, I've quite often been told things along the lines of "you'll regret it when you're older" or "you can't know true joy if you don't have kids" etc.)
This entire post is spot on. But especially the bolded part.
I don't dislike kids (as a group) and I don't like them either. I don't particularly like or dislike any age group of people. However, in general I become more interested in people as they age and gain self awareness and life experience, so babies are the least interesting, followed by the toddlers, K-12, teens, etc.
I wasn't interested in most kids even when I MYSELF was a kid LOL.
Kids sometimes actively annoy me with their noise, but that's because I'm noise-sensitive. It's not their fault they are poor communicators and/or play exuberantly; I'll just try to stay away, or possibly bitch to my seatmate a lot on an airplane flight. I'm fine engaging with kids if I have to (I was surprisingly popular with kids that I babysat for) but I'm pretty out of practice now, and don't really care to get back in practice.
Many people DO seem attracted to babies, which I kind of get hypothetically because I find juvenile animals endlessly fascinating (I find animals generally more interesting than people, though I find people interesting, too.) However, I'm mostly unaffected by human babies. They are occasionally amusing and cute, and usually screamy and stinky. I've taken care of several babies quite intensively, so I can do it competently. I just don't care to do it. No biological clock urge, ever, unless you count my ever present urge to garden and create wildlife habitat.
No big. It's an interest for some people, like any other. Thankfully, humanity has beaten back the biological imperative of the selfish gene with birth control, so now if we aren't interested, we don't gotta! If you love kids or have always wanted the experience of being a parent, by all means have them if you are in a stable situation. I'm happy to pay some taxes for your kids to be educated. I'd probably be a perfectly good, invested parent to my own child. But there's several hundred things I would find more hypothetically interesting on any given day than to take care of kids or interact with them.
Now, I AM interested in how parenting affects friends and family, because they are adults in whom I am emotionally invested. But I don't really care about the particulars of the kids themselves or what they are doing. As the kids themselves get older, if they become interesting to me, I'll get invested then. Or not. Just like with all people I know.