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Voluntary childlessness or childfreeness [1] [2] is the active choice not to have children. Use of the word "childfree" was first recorded in 1901 [3] and entered common usage among feminists during the 1970s. [4] The suffix -free refers to the freedom and personal choice of those to pick this lifestyle.
The HuffPost/YouGov poll consisted of 3,000 completed interviews conducted May 8 to 29 among U.S. adults, including 124 women who are childless and reported not wanting children in the future. It was conducted using a sample selected from YouGov's opt-in online panel to match the demographics and other characteristics of the adult U.S. population.
To have or not to have, that is the question! A century ago, it was assumed in most cultures that if you were married, the next step was to start a family. ... and society still sees childless ...
Childlessness at the age of 30. Childlessness is the state of not having children.Childlessness may have personal, social or political significance. Childlessness, which may be by choice or circumstance, is distinguished from voluntary childlessness, also called being "childfree", which is voluntarily having no children, and from antinatalism, wherein childlessness is promoted.
[6] [7] The day is aimed at celebrating people who voluntarily choose not to have children and to foster acceptance of the childfree choice. [8] [9] [10] It has also been described as "a day of celebration worldwide for those couples who have faced criticism, ridicule, and rejection because they chose to be Childless by Choice." [11]
More people are making this choice than ever, with 2023 statistics showing that nearly 50% of child-free U.S. adults under 50 are either "not too likely" or "not at all likely" to have kids — 10 ...
The term DINK isn't entirely new in China, but previously it was usually intended to indicate couples who wanted children but could not — not the childless-by-choice ethos couples are embracing ...
N.O.N was formed to advance the notion that people could choose not to have children—to be childfree. Changing its name to the National Alliance for Optional Parenthood , it continued into the early 1980s both as a support group for those making the decision to be childfree and an advocacy group fighting pronatalism (attitudes/advertising/etc ...