first time question

This past weekend, I was at an open house.  While chatting with another middle-aged woman that I had just met, she asked me if I had children.  When I replied no, she asked me a question that in my mid-forties I have never been asked before, she asked me if I wanted any.  I, again, replied no.  And that was that.  No judgement.  No wondering what was wrong with me.  Simple acceptance of my ability to CHOOSE to not have offspring.  Wow!  How refreshing.