Source: Reuters

More American women are choosing not to have children than three decades ago, according to a new report.

Nearly 20 percent of older women do not have children, compared to 10 percent in the 1970s, the Pew Research Center said.

"In recent decades, social pressure to play traditional roles has lessened in a broad variety of ways and there is more leeway for individual choice. This could play a part in lowering pressure for people to get married and bear children," said D'Vera Cohn, a co-author of the report.

Women have more options than in the past to build strong careers and to exercise the choice not to have children.

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Good on them! (No children in our house by choice.)

We're exceeding the carrying capacity of the earth. And yet the media glorifys morons like "Octamom" and the Dugans for breeding like crazed weasels.

...Call it what you want. I call it stupid AND selfish.

Oh well, more cannon fodder for our future resource wars.

Ehhh, the world isnt over populated. Plenty of free room out there. REsources arent used wisely, tho & people starve.

Yea, but congestion isnt over population, its just too many in a confined area. Catch a plane & have a look, we got LOADS of room. The eugenicists would love to have you convinced to depopulate yourselves.

Same here, no kids, yet.

I guess I'm being kinda selfish but
also it's the fact that the second they're
born they take them away, tag'em,
dna/fingerprint'em and forcefully shoot
them full of poison and then take them
away AGAIN so they can brainwash them,
drug them and feed them SH1T for 12 years
in the broken useless school system and so on.

Kids today don't have a chance, soooo much wasted potential.    

Women aren't the only ones choosing this, as others have already mentioned.  My wife and I both are pretty firmly set against having kids, much to her grandmother's dismay.  We're not really sure if that will change, either.  

We've kicked around the idea of adopting, but eh... currently neither of us are ready to make the lifestyle changes that having a kid (birthed or adopted) would require, so we're not doing either one.  

Jerry Eichenberger wrote on 06/29/10 at 12:07:40:


Exactly!

smart people need to start breeding more and thinking less, well thinking less about not breeding.

to quote from a book i read; demographics is a game of last man standing. the majority in kindergarden today are the adults in the not to distant future. look closely at France, Italy, Spain, Germany and most of Europe. They are not having children but are saddled with social programs that require high employment. Enter large numbers of immigrants who aren't always eager to put aside thier culture and adopt the ways of their new home. (yes, I'm talking about Muslims moving into old-Europe)
Listen to over-population nonsense at your own peril.