Childfree in Canada: An Increasingly Popular Choice

 

There's an interesting article at CBC News about the shrinking birth rate in Canada for the second year in a row, because of people across North America increasingly choosing to remain childfree for a variety of reasons — including the most simple of all:

For instance, the share of U.S. adults younger than 50 without children who say they are unlikely to ever have them rose from 37 per cent in 2018 to 47 per cent in 2023, according to a Pew Research survey of 8,638 respondents published in August. 

The most common reason those adults gave, at 57 per cent? "They just don't want to," research analyst Kiley Hurst wrote in the report.

A lot of factors underwrite anyone's decision to "just not want to" have children, of course. What's really notable about that reason is that it exists at all. 

It indicates that people are starting to feel less like they have to justify their choice to remain childfree, and that is a critical advancement in normalizing the choice.

Well done, everyone!

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