100% Childfree?

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Is there such a thing as an ‘anti-maternal’ instinct?

I’ve always thought of my not wanting to be a mother as one of life’s safe, unarguable certainties. A done deal, if you will.

Then a few months ago, I overheard my partner talking to one of our cats in a soft, tender voice. Suddenly and without warning, I imagined him using it to read a sweet bedtime story to our child, both of them bathed in angelic…