“Choosing Freedom or Facing Fury? The ‘Selfish’ Millennial Sparking Debate Over a Child-Free Life”
Nowadays, more and more women are choosing not to have kids, in order to focus on other aspects of their lives such as their career, well-being, or simply because they don’t want them.
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According to the Pew Research Center, fertility rates are declining in many developed countries, including the U.S., which reached a historic low in 2023. 47% of adults under 50 said they were unlikely to ever have children, which was up 37% from data collected in 2018.
Experts say a few of these factors include childhood trauma, financial challenges, political and environmental fears, paltry childcare options and parental leave policies, mental illness, attacks on reproductive freedom, and much more, according to the American Psychological Association.
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“It’s not a good enough reason anymore to say, ‘I’m going to have kids because that’s what everybody else is doing or that’s what my mom wants me to do,’” said Amanda Chappell, PhD, a faculty member at Bethany College in West Virginia whose dissertation looked at the factors influencing people’s childbearing plans.
“It’s not a good enough reason anymore because there’s so much at stake.”
As some writers have put it, there is a certain empowerment to view parenthood as an option, rather than an obligation.
Some comments, however, thought Natalie’s decision to stray away from kids was admirable
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