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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very glad I live in a society where women have the choice (and methods) to never have children. We still have a lot of work to do to get the point where it's not just assumed that every woman will or wants to be a broodmare. [/quote]

+1000! I'm a 30yo woman who is doing my PhD and I have long decided that I am childfree by choice. My grandmother didn't have the same choices I have- she was illiterate and coerced into marriage and bore 7 children- with no pain meds. Her life sucked and I wish more people can realize just how recent it has been in human history for a woman to exercise her reproductive choices. Unless of course you're in Alabama. [/quote]

Glad to have you chime in on this forum with your viewpoint. I was like this at 30.  Had an advance degree, no major desire to have kids, could give or take so no real rush to get married either.  It’s 2019 and women can decide if they want kids or not and not for society to judge them any different.  I respect you for your choices and just because I have a child doesn’t mean I think less of anyone who doesn’t.

BTW then I met my husband, and he really wanted to have kids and be a dad.  So I re-considered.  So we have a DS now, and he has been the most amazing dad.  He actually does more of the child stuff than me because my career is more demanding.  It’s what works for us.  [/quote]

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