Ep. 170 | The Child-Free Trend
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.9 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Jeff Bethke and Jeremy Pryor talk about the child-free trend.
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| 0:00.0 | that maybe life is really better without kids, that life's about, again, being free. |
| 0:10.6 | Hey, guys, welcome to the Five Minute Fatherhood podcast. I'm your co-host, Jeff Bethke, |
| 0:14.6 | along with my friend and mentor, Jeremy Pryor. Join us Monday through Friday as we chat about |
| 0:18.7 | quick tips, skills, and ways to help equip you on your journey as a father to build your multi-generational family team on mission. |
| 0:27.0 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:31.6 | What's up guys? |
| 0:32.6 | Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. |
| 0:34.6 | So we want to talk about a trend that is happening on Twitter, hashtag |
| 0:40.0 | child free. So Jeff, I was curious what your thoughts are about this. So there was an article |
| 0:45.1 | written about this that I thought was pretty interesting. This is Megan Dom. And she said, |
| 0:50.5 | the next person who says, child free gets a time time out is her article. And she wrote |
| 0:56.3 | headlines like childless and loving every minute and nine things I love about my child |
| 1:02.6 | free marriage abound. Type hashtag child free to Twitter and you get an avalanche of results that |
| 1:08.5 | range from poignant statements about reproductive |
| 1:11.2 | freedom to snarky, even gloating memes about the horrors of children and the joys of adorable |
| 1:18.0 | fur babies. Another term that should be outlawed, but one thing at a time. Now only, that only is |
| 1:24.6 | choosing not to have kids lost its stigma. It's become almost fashionable in the |
| 1:31.4 | sense that it's cool to be cool with it. And if calling yourself child free isn't the ultimate |
| 1:36.9 | example of giving yourself a trophy for something you didn't do, I don't know what is. |
| 1:43.6 | So this is another one of those kind of cultural conversations |
| 1:47.4 | that I find interesting. And I think that, you know, we can look at the culture and see this |
| 1:51.4 | trend and try to understand the reasons for it. Primarily, you guys who are watching this, |
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