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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Interesting article-Childless & Loving it
Since the dawn of birth control, more women have opted against having kids. Nearly one-in-five American women now ends her childbearing years without giving birth, up from one-in-10 in the 1970s, according to a recent Pew study. The percentage has risen for all racial and ethnic groups.
The top reason women give for not wanting kids is simply loving their life as it is. Other reasons: valuing freedom and independence, not wanting to take on the responsibility, and 74 percent said they "had no desire to have a child, no maternal/paternal instinct."
The top reason women give for not wanting kids is simply loving their life as it is. Other reasons: valuing freedom and independence, not wanting to take on the responsibility, and 74 percent said they "had no desire to have a child, no maternal/paternal instinct."
Re: Interesting article-Childless & Loving it
Last updated 4/06/11
I'm 25 and still feel too young but on the other hand I'm an only child in my Mother's words, "Her only hope".
I feel like I am compassionate but does that translate to a maternal instinct? I guess I am ambivalent so that is my answer right there.
It makes me twitch every time my MIL says this. Wow, I'm sorry you had 5 children and only one turned out decent enough to reproduce. Not my, or my uterus' problem.
DH and I have decided that for whatever reason we can't have children, we just won't. We're okay either way.
Kristi and Kerry June 21,2008
.: Diary of a Recovering Runner :.
Hey, I know you!
This is also totally us. Neither one of us wants or likes kids. We have a lot of nephews and a niece; that is more than enough for us.
Hey there, njgal26!