Outrage towards childless individuals.

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Outrage towards childless individuals.

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http://neurosciencenews.com/psychology- ... sness-6182
Data representing individuals from across the United States indicates that U.S. adults are increasingly delaying the decision to have children or forgoing parenthood entirely. Yet evidence suggests that voluntarily child-free people are stigmatized for this decision, according to a study published in the March 2017 edition of Sex Roles: A Journal of Research.
Have you fallen into this trap, or at least felt a bit of disdain towards people who don't have kids?
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I chose not to have kids. Don't feel different or treated different for it.
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I also choose to not have kids as well. But there is a slight subjective pressure in this country to have them. Many religions only want couples to have sex if they intend to procreate and have kids, anything else is a sin, so there's an example of societal pressure in favor of raising a family. One of the most common questions that I get asked by complete strangers, mostly women, is do I have kids. Most of the time when I say "no", their reactions vary from silence to "Oh, OK" and the conversation then dies on the vine like I've committed some sort of female heresy. :roll:
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