i admire women who don't want children. but all i can say is you had better be saving for your retirement. b/c demographics are going to make old age very difficult in the not too distant future.

There is a war on women in this country. I never had a biological clock so there was no pressing need to reproduce. I did get the family pressure but by the time I was 40 they figured it was not going to happen.
By society do they mean the white religious among us? Seems everything scares them, it is not good to live in fear but I can't seem to get that thru to the buybull thumpers.

Declining white birth rates are behind the Republican push to ban abortions. They fear the coming minority majority.

I support women who say no to having kids.

Like them, I was adamant about not having children. Pressure to have kids was relentless and absurd:

"You both are so intelligent, your genes need to be in the gene pool."

But at 34, my biological clock began ticking. I wrote a letter to Newsweek in response to an article about this phenomenon. After a phone interview, I was quoted extensively in "The Biological Clock."

For a year, Terry and I debated about having a child. During the 10 minutes we agreed, we conceived.

Claire was born when I was 35 and Terry was 40.

I got rid of "The Biological Clock" book because it would have hurt Claire to read what I said about not wanting a child.

It's definetly a good thing.

"How many kids do you have?"

"None"

"Why not?"

If I had a nickel for every time that conversation happened hahahahahahaha. But seriously it was my choice and the assumption or hint that there is something wrong with me for that choice is insulting at best.

Capitalism especially requires constant, and more, new consumers.