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There Is a Big, Uncomfortable Reason Why Some Women Don’t Have Children
It’s not just about “selfishness” or lack of resources
 • Charlie Brown
Why Some Mothers Really Hate Childfree Women
For those who embraced motherhood, the childfree choice can feel like a threat to their own
 • Victoria Suzanne
I Changed My Mind About Having Children Too Late
This is what it’s like to live with that decision
 • Charlie Brown
Next Time Someone Says You Were Made to Have Babies, Show Them This
The human body is uniquely ill-suited to reproduction
 • Elanor Landrie
Being Childfree Is Not My ‘Whole Personality’ but Here’s Why I Need to Talk About It
And until the suppression of people without children is eradicated, I will keep waving my flag.
 • Ali Hall
Why I Stopped Asking People If They Have Kids
What living both lives taught me about respecting choices
Motherhood Was Once My Dream — Here’s Why I Let It Go
These perspective shifts led me to see my future without children.
 • Eva Keiffenheim MSc
Why People Who Don’t Have Children Deserve a More Inclusive Label
Childless, childfree, non-parent…we shouldn’t have to define ourselves as the inverse of those who have kids
 • Y.L. Wolfe
How Jennifer Aniston’s Devastating Revelation Is a Lesson to Us All
Can we please stop asking this damn question!
 • Ali Hall
Jennifer Aniston Said No To Adoption. Does That Mean She Is Selfish?
When will we stop measuring women by their degree of imagined selflessness?
 • Maria Garcia
Children Aren’t The Only Way to Leave a Legacy
There are so many better ways to make your mark on the world
 • Victoria Suzanne
Are Women 'Under-Babied'? Or Are We Under-Supported, Under-Respected and Over-Exhausted?
The pronatalism of the right is accelerating
 • Ali Hall
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