When I tell people I don't actually want more children they look at me like I've just said the most horrible thing. When you tell people you don't want more children, they look at you like you hate children -- in particular your own.
My issue with young people deciding not have children has far less to do with any societal obligations they may or may not have. It's way more personal: Yes, you may count me among those dumb-clucks who worry that young people just don't know what they're missing and when and if they do realize it, it'll be too late.
Those bright eyes and chubby cheeks may be hard to resist, but researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle have good reason...
A woman who had her first child at 34 is likely to be, in health terms, 14 years younger than a woman who gave birth at 18.
NEW YORK -- U.S. births fell for the fourth year in a row, the government reported Wednesday, with experts calling it more proof that the weak economy...
"Is it amazing?" my younger sister asked. I wasn't sure how to answer. This was a wanted baby. We had her on purpose. But I was in the thick of things. Struggling. Overwhelmed. "It's tough," I answered. "Toughest job you'll ever love?" I changed the subject.
A generation ago, women who did not marry and/or have children by age 40 grieved and moved on. But today, with the advancement of assisted reproductive technology, women are no longer given permission to move on.
From your parents or your in-laws, the insinuations about having babies are not something that you really want to deal with as a newlywed, but you could try to understand the reasons that parents feel so inclined to speak up on the subject.
We checked out our first house today and in front of the realtor my wonderful husband dropped a bombshell: A two-bedroom house would be fine, since we were not having any more children.
The idea that men might feel less empowered than women to discuss their desire to be parents deserves our attention. However, the Daily Mail piece frames the issue in a completely unproductive way -- blaming "career women" for "denying" their partners children.
This is one of three essays contributed to the Motherlode blog by performers in the first New York City production of Listen to Your Mother, an nation...
As long as in the end I was a mother, nothing was a game-changer for me. Until a few months back when I saw PBS's "Donor Unknown."
There is plenty of sunshine and roses that comes with parenthood, but as any parent with an ounce of honesty will tell you, it's also the toughest gig you'll ever have.
If we wait until our youngest enters college to pick up and start living again, I will be fifty-six years old. Do I really want to wait that long? I have a solution: I'm starting now.
I dreamed of bringing my daughter home from the hospital and cooing over her every expression. There wasn't a thing about her and her life that I hadn't considered, except the chance that "she" might be a "he."
Here's the truth. I don't know if I am going to have kids. What's more, I don't know when I am going to know.
Create space for indolence. Otherwise it will simply get buried under the joys and needs of small children, under the demands and triumphs of making a living.
Having a child isn't a panacea, or a means to an end, or even an end itself -- it's more a gateway to fuller participation in humanity.
A happy marriage is made up of many factors. One of these is making crucial and long-lasting decision about whether or not to have children -- a choice that should be given top priority.
Part of what bugs me about the ticking clock narrative is that it suggests that only women need to be concerned about the age at which they reproduce.
