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Nov 1, 2016 · More women than ever in the U.S. are making the choice to remain childfree —or not making the choice to have children, depending on how you want to look at it.
Dec 29, 2019 · Remaining childless by choice (AKA childfree) is still an outlying path, a move that raises questions and is met with prejudice and even moral outrage. This is particularly true for women,...
May 11, 2023 · If you're child-free by choice, you may get comments from people wanting to know more about your decision. Life Kit asked our audience for their go-to responses about being child-free.
- Who Qualifies as “Childless,” and Should We Use A Different term?
- How Common Has It Been For People to Have No Children?
- The Psychology of Adults Who Do Not Have Children and Those Who Judge Them
- Challenges to The Reverence For Motherhood
- Characteristics of Women Who Do Not Have Children
1. “In general,” Chrastil says, “I define someone as childless if they never had a biological child and have never been deeply involved in raising a child, whether through legal adoptionor otherwise.” 2. The technically accurate term for people who do not have children is “nulliparous.” Chrastil finds the term unappealing. As for “childfree,” she t...
3. A high rate of childlessness is nothing new. As Chrastil noted, “widespread childlessness has been a long-standing reality in northwestern European towns and cities from around 1500 onward.” There was one exception: “The baby boom was an anomaly, an interlude that lasted about 20 years. Then, childlessness returned, more controversial and openly...
7. During the Reformation (1517-1648), “religious, legal, familiar, and cultural pressures [were] designed…to ensure that women would reproduce and do so within acceptable parameters.” But the fact that these pressures were deemed necessary testifies to "the fearthat women might somehow opt out.” 8. In the 1600s, single women without children “coul...
14. Thomas Robert Malthus, who railed against population growth in a famous 1798 essay, included a section in praise of single women in the 1803 version: “…the conduct of the old maid had contributed more to the happinessof society than that of the matron.” Then he got married and deleted the section commending single women in future editions. 15. ...
18. Today, it is important to distinguish between marital status and parental status; many single people do have kids and many married people do not. Historically, though, the statuses were more likely to overlap. Single women typically had no children. “In the early modern period, one did not choose childlessness so much as decline (or fail to acq...
Apr 3, 2024 · Why Some Women Are Proudly Choosing A Child-Free Life. It can be liberating, yet stigmas persist. Here, how to cut through the noise with clarity and confidence to make the decision that’s...
Mar 20, 2023 · A choice that is none of their business. Chelsea Handler triggered a firestorm of misogynistic fury after a she created a satirical and raunchy sketch for Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show," which portrayed her exciting, carefree life as a single woman with no kids.
Two women, including Black author and activist Rachel Cargle, share their intentional decision to remain child-free and psychologist Shannon Curry weighs in.
