The Love of Non-Parent Parents

By Kim Moeller  •  July 17, 2025

I’m not a parent. It’s not that I did not want children, I just didn’t know I wanted kids until I was later in life and single. While I know women who were single and chose to have children, I knew that choice was just not for me.

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