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The federal government reported Wednesday that the birth rate in the United States
declined for the sixth straight year in 2020. People had 3,605,201 babies in the U.S. last year, the lowest number since 1979 and a 4 percent drop from 2019.
Amy Blackstone, a University of Maine professor of sociology, appeared on KCUR National Public Radioâs âUp to Dateâ program to discuss the growing childfree by choice movement ahead of Motherâs Day.
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/ Natalie Torres Gallagher with her mother, Lorraine, in Bay City, 1989.
One woman celebrates her mother s life through recreating a recipe and another reveals why she and others choose to be childfree.
Natalie Torres Gallagher tells how she reclaimed the heritage of her mother by cooking her rice recipe. Amy Blackstone explains the growing movement of women choosing to forgo motherhood.
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During a recent interview, Dolly Parton found herself answering a question that she has been asked countless times over several decades: Why doesn’t she have children? Sure, she has written more than 3,000 songs, provided nearly 150 million books for children through her Imagination Library, and recently helped fund research that contributed to the development of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. But what about
Having kids is a roller coaster ride
Research shows that there is a happiness bump that parents experience right after a baby is born. But that tends to dissipate over the course of a year, Glass says.
After that point in time, the levels of happiness of parents and non-parents gradually diverge, with non-parents generally growing happier over time.
It s not that parents are lukewarm about bringing a baby into their lives, but child-rearing is tough. You find that [parents ] happiness plummets pretty quickly once they discover all of the work that s involved in a brand new baby, Amy Blackstone, professor of sociology at the University of Maine, and author of Childfree by Choice, tells CNBC Make It.