A new Pew Research Center Study shows that 20 percent or one out of five American women don’t have children. A larger percentage of those with advanced degrees are childless, but that number has decreased in recent years. Why is that? Some believe women with the most education have more options for creating a family-friendly worklife. What do you think?
Below are links to three articles on the subjects to ponder.
Forbes: Childlessness is Up
NY times another view
Salon.com: Childless by Choice
Author: Sue Fagalde Lick
writer/musician
California native, Oregon resident
Author of Freelancing for Newspapers, Shoes Full of Sand, Azorean Dreams, Stories Grandma Never Told, Childless by Marriage, Now Way Out of This: Loving a Partner with Alzheimer's, and the Up Beaver Creek novel series. Most recently, I have published three poetry chapbooks, Gravel Road Ahead, The Widow at the Piano: Confessions of a Distracted Catholic, and Blue Chip Stamp Guitar, plus a full-length collection Dining Al Fresco with My Dog. I have published hundreds of articles, plus essays, fiction and poetry. I'm also pretty good at singing and playing guitar and piano.
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