Exploring the Childfree and Childless Lifestyles: Reasons Behind Declining US Fertility Rates

Abstract

Families and Children. Explain the difference between childless and childfree. Childless persons are those people living without children because of infertility issues. Childfree are those persons who deliberately postpone having children because of their reasons. Video; Conversation between a child freeman and a childless woman. Sarah and Cameron are two people with different reasons why they do not have children. Cameron is childfree while Sarah is Childless. Cameron believes that getting a child and raising it from birth is intriguing since his life is put on hold. Cameron believes that a child comes with a lot of fears and panic. He requires the capacity to raise that child. Sarah has infertility issues and has tried having a child for a long and eventually quit because it was not happening. She receives pressure from family, friends, and religion to have children. Cameron shares the same pressures from families for her to have children and tells a story of a friend who got married due to pressure from the church and family, and she ended up killing herself because she was not happy about her life. Sarah says that being children has affected her mentally, and nobody cares about it; they keep telling her to try for a miracle baby. Society is a problem since it is judgmental of the childless and the childfree, and it is essential to educate them. Having children is not a dominant social norm making it different for this two to socialize. People got to make choices about whether to be childless or childfree. Why are fertility rates declining in the United States? Why do we see millennials having fewer or no children? High unemployment rates contribute to the decline in fertility in the US; The periods of recession and financial crisis...