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I used to not want kids, then I had kids and they're my whole world, whole reason for living, but I think I'd stayed child free, I would have never believed that or felt that way. You only get the feelies after the child, not before. So you won't regret it.
There's a ton of people out there who regret having children. Yours is but one opinion.
You sound like the people who insist that you won't see the benefits of marriage until you take the plunge, meanwhile they're divorced or on the verge of.