Are there karmic repercussions to not having children?

[Fleur de Frost]

I'm sure an understanding of how souls choose their physical vessel would help - but if you choose not to provide that physical vessel (especially females), what happens? Are you hindering the development of humanity by taking away one less form for a soul to take?

[Blue Tiger]

Not all people choose to have children. Some are unable to have them. Having a family, while often considered the norm, is not an obligation on a karmic or personal level.

But I do see where your concern comes from; you wonder if making this very personal decision will somehow deny a soul their "rightful" place in the 3D world. You worry that you will upset some mysterious plan and disrupt the unfolding of the future.

In my opinion the answer is a simple "no."

If you truly do not wish to have children, then that is very likely exactly how it is "planned" to be. Your life might be an exploration of other facets of living, instead. Perhaps your life/energies will be a path of service to others, or of innovation, or even of quiet contemplation.

All are valid life paths. Honor the path that feels right to you.

[lenvdb64]

No I do not think so.

I got married and tried for years with my wife to have a baby.
Nothing happened.

After my divorce she remarried and had a baby. She was happy.
The Human side is part of the animal nature in us and procreation is part of the animal drive.

Souls can choose of be a vessel for other souls to enter into this realm and most souls of the same soul family do so as per agreement.

Often highly evolved souls from higher realms choose to reincarnate to come and facilitate a learning experience, without having to leave a karmic footprint. The come, meet up with another, do the learning and return without having children. Nothing wrong with that.
I have no children and feel no need to "leave a legacy" of children. Once I leave I go back to my home and carry on with my work there. This life was a brief interruption to my real work in the afterlife. So my focus is not on this life here and its complexities, but getting the work here done so I can get back to my real life and real work over there.

It depends on your focus. Most people have no awareness of the bigger picture. All they know is all they see here and this means having babies, raising kids, having a family etc etc. I suspect they have karmic debts to settle and often parents in conflict with their children suffer as they work through their karmic debt. I see it often.

Other than than I care about the souls and the development of those souls. I do not really care much for the humans and their animalistic driven needs to procreate or other ego driven issues.

I define ego as our animal side living from a place of lack, making fear based decisions. The 4 F's = Fight against it , Flight (Flee from it), Feed off it, [Edited/Swearing rule] it (Reproduce with it).

Talking about reproduction - I heard on the radio yesterday about the bus driver in Surrey UK being jailed for 5 years for indecently assaulting a teenager over 4 years. She was 12 when he started messing with her. The same guy was in the news a few years ago for being the most prolific father in the UK, having father 28 or 29 children with 9 different women.

He was always bragging about his paternal skills, which some women would fall for. They said he should have said his fathering skills as he fathered so many. LOL.
Yet he was a poor role model and father for those children in his care.
I am sure he makes up for those who feel the need to procreate but can't.
:-)

I am sure that there will be some karmic repercussions for this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...oung-girl.html

[running]

Originally Posted by Fleur de Frost

I'm sure an understanding of how souls choose their physical vessel would help - but if you choose not to provide that physical vessel (especially females), what happens? Are you hindering the development of humanity by taking away one less form for a soul to take?

I would bet your saving humanity. The planet is over populated imo.

[Somnia]

I don't think there are any negative repercussions for not wanting to have children in this lifetime. I believe some people feel called to have children and others do not. Granted it could also depend on your partner and if you can see/feel having that kind of future with them. In my case, I do not see children in the future with me and my mate. i just don't see it happening. I don't feel the drive to have kids with him. I've sometimes wondered if I had hooked up with someone else would I have kids? It's quite possible, but having or not having children is not a deal-breaker to me in a relationship.

[RedEmbers]

I have more or less decided to not have any more biological children.

I often think that the world is currently over burdened and if more children come into my life it will be children who are already here.

I like the idea of somehow asisisting and encouraging those who are already here to find there freedom reach there potential.

That might mean playing a support role for families or maybe one day I would consider becoming a foster parent... or something along those lines...

It could be that souls can re-create contacts if there are any to begin with... I don't see why children couldn't come into lives through other means as well.

[muffin]

Good afternoon Fleur de frost

Or another way of looking at it, one less attachment.

[Baile]

Karma isn't about repercussions, it's about life and experience choices. You meet someone, they want you as their partner, you say no and go your own way, never having the experience of living and being with them. Two streams of karma, one you choose and the other you reject.

Same applies here with your question.

[Rah nam]

Originally Posted by Fleur de Frost

I'm sure an understanding of how souls choose their physical vessel would help - but if you choose not to provide that physical vessel (especially females), what happens? Are you hindering the development of humanity by taking away one less form for a soul to take?

As it has been said, there are no repercussion for not having children, of cause not.
I would even say, by not having family it is easier not to get karmically entangled in this reality, if someone comes for just one life time, perhaps to be of service.

[Shaunc]

Karma as principle really just means that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The karmic result of not having children is the same as the pros and cons of not having children.
You'll certainly have more disposable income and far less responsibility. When you get old you could possibly end up with no one to look out for you.
I wouldn't look at it as good and bad, moral and immoral. I'd just tend to look at it as a lifestyle choice.
Choose which ever one seems best to you