Complete Without Kids  Exploring all facets of childfree living.
Childfree by Choice—A Growing Trend  Parenting is an option, not
an obligation!  In my clinical psychology practice, I see a lot
of students from our local university, and it's refreshing to
hear that more and more young people are viewing the choice of
whether or not to have children as simply another big decision
to make when exploring future life option. Girls are recognizing
that, just because they have the capacity to get pregnant and be
mothers, this is NOT their purpose for living. It's an option!
This was certainly not the case when I was in college in the
Deep South in the late 1970's; at that time, we all expected to
find a mate, get married, and begin to pop out babies. We spent
more time choosing a major in college than we did contemplating
the biggest decision of all—whether or not to have kids. Here's
an example of just how rare it was to not become a parent—when I
was writing my book, Complete Without Kids, my mother told me
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