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Why Are So Many Americans Choosing to Not Have Children?
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Scrolled upon NYT headline “Kids? A Growing Number of Americans Say, ‘No, Thanks.’ Access restricted via paywall but upon searching the title online found this article
- "Parent or childfree" used to be my framework for understanding a dividing difference of adult life. But aging and, yes, friendship, have taught me that there are so many experiences that binary doesn't capture: To want kids but not be able to have them, for physical or financial or logistical reasons. To not want kids but accidentally get pregnant... See more
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from Ann Friedman Young adults are dating less, having less sex, and showing less interest in ever having children than prior generations. They are more likely to live with their parents. They were less likely to get jobs as teens, and managers say they are harder to work with. Many of these trends began with earlier generations, but most of them accelerated with Ge
... See morefrom 4. The High Cost of a Phone-Based Childhood by archive.md
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