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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Philippa Perry

We’ve just got married and now the pressure is on to have children. But why should we?

Look at what we've accomplishedPosed by models Shot of a young couple walking through their crops while holding each other and looking into the horizon
‘I wouldn’t at this stage tell my mum I’m on the fence about it.’ Photograph: PeopleImages/Getty Images

The question My husband and I are both in our mid-30s and got married last year. Now we’ve found that societally (and predictably), the conversation has pivoted to, “When are you going to have children?”

We have discussed this a lot together and are not sure if we want to have children or not. I don’t doubt that we would be fantastic parents and would tackle the inevitable challenges that come up as we are both on the same page with our parenting philosophies, but at this stage our “cons” list outweighs the “pros”.

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