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As the pandemic s baby bust shows, the desire to have kids just isn’t there like it was before.
Child-free women are having a bit of a moment in the media.
“Why many women are intentionally opting out of parenthood,” one recent Today Show headline said. “Choosing ‘child-free’ does not equate to a dislike for children,” the subhed added lest we think these women are baby-disinterested jerks.
Last month, The New York Times ran a photo series by Zoë Noble, a photographer in Berlin who’s capturing the lives and stories of the “consciously child-free.”