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What Young Women Really Don't Want
Maybe the prospect of a tiny thing with hair and fingernails growing inside of you (GAHHHH!) gives you a serious case of the heebie jeebies. Maybe you're just too busy pursuing your second doctorate. Whatever reason you have for not having a kid right now, you're not alone -- the number of women who are choosing not to have children is on the rise.According to a study by the Pew Research Center, the number of women ending their "childbearing years" without any children has spiked, with almost a fifth of American women going baby-free.
That's 18 percent of the population; in 1976, only 10 percent of women were doing so.
The survey asked respondents to list their own views on childbearing, as well as those of others. (You know all those people with babies who pity us because we don't know what real love is? Well, 59 percent of them no longer think we "lead empty lives," so that's nice!)
Surprisingly, 38 percent of people actually responded that they believe childlessness is "bad for society." (You know what we think is bad for society? Babies. Crying. In bars.) But the overall sentiment? It's OK for women not to have kids if they don't want to. Hopefully this means that we can go to our cousin's wedding without anybody reminding us that our fertile years are tapering off like a pair of mom jeans.
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Wednesday 30 June
By K
It would be WONDERFUL if no woman had a baby unless she really wanted one and was 100% ready for the responsibility! KUDOS to every woman who remains childless by choice! To thine own self be true.
Human beings are not endangered, every sperm is not precious. Children who are wanted are not abused or murdered by family members. Your life is not somehow mystically empty if you don't give birth and there are LOTS of old people festering away in nursing homes who's kids will have nothing to do with them. I hate to see people who have kids because their family or society or church expects them to produce or because they can't figure out birth control. That's the wrong reason to create a human being.
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Wednesday 30 June
By Shima
i agree 99.9% the .1% is that theres a chance that when a person reaches an age they realize they want a child....i know many of my teachers when i was younger were in that rut....i believe they should doubt every second but once in a while really think about it 'cause in the end we'll be old and wrinkly in an old home looking back on life
Wednesday 30 June
By shima
Shouldn't*****
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Friday 25 March
By Cand86
I find this more than a bit misleading- the study you cite doesn't appear to have ever asked anybody whether they wanted children or not, and our desires do not necessarily match our reality. There are plenty of women who have children that never wanted them, and there are plenty of women who want children but haven't had any, due to a variety of reasons: age, infertility, genetic risk factors, lack of a situation that they would want to have a child (like finding a suitable partner, being financially stable, having support systems in place, etc.).
I clicked here looking for a statistic on what percentage of women do and do not wish to have children, and instead I get this sloppy title that is unsupported by the content. Boo.
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