Whether you’re ‘childless’ or ‘childfree’, you shouldn't have to talk about it | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Il résulte de ce contexte culturel une absence totale de soutien pour celles qui s’abstiennent. « Je ne sais pas dans quelle mesure tu peux ne pas désirer d’enfant de manière sereine », dit à Charlotte Debest l’une des femmes qu’elle interroge

At the heart of the opposition to adoptions, or to anything that would tend to discourage abortions, is the notion that children are expendable when they inconvenience adults. Anyone who has ever raised children knows that inconvenience is their middle name—and anyone who can look back on his own childhood honestly knows that he was at least an inc