Another perspective:
"One in five women are childless at midlife, with about 90% of those in that position not by choice."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/07/chasm-...
"One in five women are childless at midlife, with about 90% of those in that position not by choice."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/07/chasm-...
What utter trash article. Not only is the patriarchy completely antithetical to reduced fertility, but most childless women are absolutely so by choice, because they have unreasonably high standards and frequently are poor partners themselves.
Like the logic makes sense but odd bedfellows.
> But who are the childless and how many of them wanted children? The closest we can come is a 2010 meta-analysis by the Dutch academic Prof Renske Keiser[2], which suggested that only 10% of childless women actively chose not to become mothers. That leaves 90% of women like Day. Only 9% of that 90% are childless for known medical reasons [1].
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/02/the-des...
[2] https://www.nwo.nl/actueel/nieuws/2010/Kinderloosheid+is+zel...
NOTE!! [2] is the actual link given in the 2017 Guardian article and that link to a Dutch popsci site no longer works - link rot strikes again.
For myself I'm rarely swayed by third hand references to meta surveys that "suggest" a result.