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Apr 27, 2024 · More than half (50.1%) of women in England and Wales born in 1990 were without a child when they turned 30 in 2020, the first generation to do so, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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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...
Sep 25, 2023 · A growing number of women in the US are deciding not to have children — part of a trend that has been underway for more than a decade. But many say they still face judgment for their...
May 7, 2018 · Mother's Day can be painful for many childless women. Millions of women who are childless not by choice grapple with the emotional pain of not having a daughter or son every day, says Saskia ...
May 3, 2021 · Women who don’t have kids are threatening because it’s a sure decision. People wonder, “What else is she going to want?”
Nov 1, 2016 · We talked to 10 women, now past childbearing age, about their decision not to have children to help inform and support younger women making a similar choice. 1.
May 11, 2023 · If you're child-free, you don't owe an explanation to anyone, says Harris, the founder of #NoBibsBurpsBottles, an online community for child-free Black women. "If you don't feel like...
