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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a millennial and chalked up the lack of kids to being in a high-achieving cohort. Maybe half of us have kids? [b]The other half aren't married.[/b] I don't many that are childless by choice (as far as I know). My friends both gay and straight that are married by in large have kids usually 2-3. But I myself hit total unexplained secondary infertility at 35 so have 2 kids but am unlikely to have 3.

My husband is in the military and in his friend group we only know 2 childless by choice couples. Most men have 1 if not 2 sets of kids by different women thanks to the damage the many years in war did on their personal lives.

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This. I know maybe one or two childfree by choice couples. I am early 30s so not everyone has had kids yet, but my married friends either have them, are trying to have them, or will start trying soon (some from the second and third groups may not get them, but it won't be for lack of effort). The rest of my friends aren't married. They are interested in kids, but aren't sure it's going to happen for them.

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I'm early 40's and this is my experience too.  We have 1 kid, but only because of multiple losses trying for #2. All of my other friends and family have 2-3 kids, except for the very religious cohort that has 4-5 kids. I have a LOT of women friends who are unmarried, and would have liked to be a single mom by choice but didn't go for it because of the cost.[/quote]

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