Fortunately, I haven't had that sort of question come from our niece or nephews. I'm glad you posted this as it at least gives me a chance to prepare myself for the possibility and prepare a response - not that I'm ever any good at delivering said response when under pressure.

Perhaps you could tell them that you enjoy being their aunty so much and having your own children would give you less time to be aunty BG, and you don't think they'd like that... but that creates problems when you do get pregnant "are you sick of being my aunt now?"

Being a teacher I do some times have to face the questions of "do you have kids, Mrs BW?", which is always followed by "why not?" or "don't you like kids?". Depends on how I'm feeling on the day as to how I'll respond - can be anything from getting snappy and sending them back to work without an answer (don't like doing that, but on the bad days, it's all I can do), or laughing it off with a comment along the lines of "I spend all day here at school with you lot, why would I want to go home and spend even more time with kids?". Sometimes I'll have another student in the class say something like that and I'll just laugh and agree. I do work with much older kids, though, so it's easier to laugh things off and not being related to them, I can do that. I have noticed this year that they are much more reserved about those questions - last year we had a staff member lose two babies, her students knew, and they know that's why she's not working here this year, so they do seem a little more subdued this year.

Interesting thoughts to ponder, BG.

BW