![]() ![]() Their economic, environmental, political and community circumstances have shaped the range of choices available to them - and whether they ultimately had many children, few children or none at all. The decisions of women today are also far from baffling: Women have always considered their material lives when evaluating their reproductive options. History is full of women without children: Among white women born in the last third of the 19th century in the United States, the norm was for one in five to have no children among Black women that number was closer to one in three. Vance of Ohio, it is an alarming development, possibly even a sign of America’s impending collapse, “for the leaders of our country to be people who don’t have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring.”īut while younger women today may be liberated - or cursed, depending on your point of view - by reproductive options that were less available in the past, the decision of some to avoid motherhood is far from new. “We see that some people do not want to have a child.” To Senator J.D. “Today, we see a form of selfishness,” Pope Francis said last year. ![]() If you listen to a lot of politicians and public figures, you’d think that being childless was invented by millennials as another way of shirking our duty to society. In America today, we tend to talk about not having children as a late-20th-century phenomenon made possible by contraceptive technology and women’s liberation. ![]()
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