This Is Why We Hate Childfree Women

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Women have internalized our own devaluation. No wonder many women with the privilege of making the choice are choosing not to have children. Child-rearing is arguably the most difficult path possible, a hero’s journey that leads us on harrowing adventures but for which we receive almost no credit.

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Whether you’re ‘childless’ or ‘childfree’, you shouldn’t have to talk about it

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Whatever term is used, it positions having a child as the default, and has the power to be wounding. Why define by deficit?

Mon 18 Apr 2022 16.00 AEST

Last modified on Mon 18 Apr 2022 16.13 AEST

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One thing that does make me laugh is the stereotype of a life unfulfilled with no children. There is this assumption that I will wake up in the dead of night at 42, sweating, sad, heartbroken to find there is a huge child shaped hole in my life and that everything is meaningless without becoming a mother. That all my accomplishments and work thus