What was it 20 years ago?
What is the breakdown? People are voting with their choices.
“What was it 20 years ago?”
I knew a lot of girls in HS who said they would never have kids. Some of those girls to this day never did but some did. It’s kinda 50/50. That was more than 20 years ago mind you.
My childbearing years were 50 years ago and I never wanted children. Just four-footed ones. Grateful to all of you who kept humanity going. Grateful also that individuals always had a choice in the matter.
If I’d ever gotten pregnant, I would have had the child and never had an abortion. Glad I never got into that situation. One of my friends became an “it” in her early 20’s. Never wanted to go that far.
It’s so much more common now not to have children than it was back then. But even back then I don’t remember any pressure to have kids. Just that enjoyable friends suddenly became excruciatingly boring when they did and their topics of conversation devolved.
Career has always been everything to me and children would have wrecked it because I would have made them priority. I’m 80 now and dancing on tiptoes that the issue never had to be faced.
Thank you - every one of you - who had the children for those of us who didn’t want them.
Or 50 years ago?
I’d say three-in-ten not wanting children is probably pretty normal among young people. It was with me.
Younger people are reveling in their new-found adulthood and the freedoms that come with it.
Let’s ask all these same people the same question in 15 or 20 years and see the results.