A new book has detailed the many reasons women are increasingly choosing not to have children - but it's insights have left me wondering, yet again, why people with kids are so obsessed with finding out why women like me choose to be child-free.
"What Are Children For?" (available on Amazon for pre-order) It's a divisive book title, isn't it? But it's a question I'm always asking myself as someone who is child-free by choice. And it seems that millions of women are asking themselves the same thing, and finding increasingly lacking answers, as birth rates across the western world have been on a downward trajectory since the 1970s.
