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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people should only have kids if they want them. Truly. But acting as if it's common/normal to not want kids is disingenuous. Like every other species, we are biologically programmed to want kids. It's the biological norm, and our genetic fitness is 0 if we don't reproduce. So, no, I'm not buying that "most" people of any group don't want ANY kids. [/quote]

But there are at least two groups of people who don't have children.

1. People who don't want children and don't have them
2. People who do want children but don't have them[/quote]

New poster here. Fact is:

80 percent of american women have at least one child at some point in life.

Despite what they or anyone proclaims on the internet.

The 20 percent includes the childless (infertile, couldn't find a partner in time, etc) and the childfree (never wanted kids), and historically included many lesbians, though that last one is changing fast.

Albeit, many women are having kids later these days. That is the big demographic change.

It is just that the childfree segment of the 20 percent has become very vocal, and there are a lot of 22 year olds who think that they are part of the 20 percent but when they get older they join the 80 percent.

I will grant that, with childbirth delayed more and more, that 80 pct may drop as women miss the window despite wanting kids.

[/quote] +1! DH and I didn't want kids until our late 30s. Now we have 3, and we have many friends who wanted careers and waited until late 30s/early 40s to have them. It's the trend of the 21st Century![/quote]

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