Couples Without Children By Choice

            It is increasingly common to see adult couples without children. Times have changed and the preconceived idea of ​​getting married, starting a family and having children has been blurring a bit over the years, right? Currently, the average age to have the first child has been rising and even today there are many couples who prefer to be together, but without children.

            And yes, the truth is that some people may find it strange, and even selfish, to hear that there are people who do not want to have children with the person they want. Luckily, everyone has the freedom to decide whether or not to have a child. Today there are many couples who do not want to have children because they do not like children too much or because their economy is quite low and they believe that they will not be able to give their children an adequate education. Also, couples who believe that their life will be better this way, without children because they already have everything they need. The latter is the most common.

           Adults who decide not to have children prefer to dedicate their lives to their partner and make different plans without ties, traveling, going out at night, etc. It is true that many unmarried couples or couples who do not have children consider that their life has changed too much because they continue to make many plans, travel and enjoy life the same or more than before. However, others strongly believe that their life would take an unexpected turn.

             

      In conclusion to this study, the researchers observed that some of the reasons why some men and women decide not to have children are because it carries more weight than those who criticize them. Blackstone believes that "people who decide not to have children do not make decisions lightly. They have seen what it is like to have children very closely and they have not liked it, they have thought a lot about what it means to be a father and a mother. In addition, for women specifically social responsibility usually influences, as some individuals who underwent the study consider that they are aware of the environment and that they are very concerned about population control. The case of men was different because their reasons are usually more personal. One of them considered in the study that not having children is the result of their decisions. Men want to travel and do things they love if they don’t have children.

            In the commitments of a lifetime, it is quite common today that a person decides to live alone and, of course, without having the need nor the desire to be with someone and much less have children. Some of the most common causes are usually the possibility of improvising plans on the fly or having greater privacy. And no one should put negative connotations to the word loneliness or, of course, relate it to something depressing, but rather understand that loneliness can be a path like any other, a choice and an alternative.

            And you may even be thinking that living alone or just is wonderful, that the decision to not have children has been great and that you are really good in decision making, but you should know that many years ago, when one person chooses to live alone, it was interpreted as an indicator of some problem whether it was psychological, sexual or social. Here it is also important to consider a gender issue, as it was not the same as this decided by a woman to a man. All possible and totally derogatory suspicions loomed over: frigid, spinster or promiscuous. Luckily, today, living alone, not having a partner or having a partner but not having children, is something completely normal and nothing happens. The term "without children by choice" refers precisely to that, to adult individuals who neither want to have children because they themselves have decided so.