I've never wanted children on account of doing a lot of child rearing when I was a child myself. It's so much fucking work and there are no resources or community for you as a parent unless you know other parents. I don't hate kids; they're great. I just don't care for having any of my own up to this point in my life, and I'm okay with that. But hell yeah, I'll go to the aquarium with my friends and their kid on the weekend!
Antinatalists could probably take up a whole thread of their own. These people gush all about how much they hate children, and have no problem opening up to me all about it once they know I'm "child-free". They
LOATHE kids and think they're entitled to a world without them. A kid cried on a plane. That sucks. But where did you learn the terms: "hellspawn", "breeder", and "birthgivers"? ...I once had a date ask me if I was "fixed"...
Do you know what offsets kids in public? You spend just a LITTLE more money. Fly a better airline. There's never a lot of kids when I fly Virgin.
You're not having kids, so you have more money than that family flying together. Spend a little extra for a better seat, and don't sit at the back of the plane. Problem solved. Buy noise-canceling headphones. Go to better restaurants. Go to better theaters. The perk of fewer kids is something that is built into the price but is never a guarantee. They don't have child-free airlines for the same reason why women can't get a female driver when they request one on Lyft.
I think it comes down to them having abusive childhoods, thinking that's the case for everyone, and as a result they see existence as punishment. My childhood sucked too; the last thing on my mind is children in public, the adult places I go to don't tend to have a lot of them. And if I got dragged to Disney World I'd buy a premium pass or whatever and also not complain about children at
fucking Disney World.
If these people really wanted there to be fewer children in the world, and are actually this upset by children, they'd follow the data. The more educated people are, the better their standard of living; the fewer children they have. Go to the countries where the birth rates are way above the "replenishment rate" and try to help educate those people.