Why a generation is choosing to be child-free

Posted on AllSides August 2nd, 2020
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When I think that it won’t hurt too much, I imagine the children I will not have. Would they be more like me or my partner? Would they have inherited my thatch of hair, our terrible eyesight? Mostly, a child is so abstract to me, living with high rent, student debt, no property and no room, that the absence barely registers. But sometimes I suddenly want a daughter with the same staggering intensity my father felt when he first cradled my tiny body in his big hands. I want to...

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/25/why-a-generation-is-choosing-to-be-child-free

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