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Many people saw Parenthood as the next step and one woman who I interview in the film

who didn't want children would actually say to people she couldn't have children because she felt she couldn't come out and say it would make her unhappy to have a child.

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her money whether we are in our offices putting together stories for her money.com,

whether we're in our private Facebook group facilitating a conversation with the

10,000 of you who are in our private Facebook group talking

about anything and everything or whether we're pulling together a script for the podcast, what we're trying to do is talk openly

about the choices that we make as women.

And the nice thing is today we live in this world where we can choose to do and be anything we want.

We can be CEOs, we can be engineers, cops, military generals, we can be side hustlers, the list goes on and on and on.

And in the same way that we're now choosing and

one of those big things in our lives. We're also choosing and celebrating the things that we don't.

And one of those big things is motherhood. The birth rate in the United States hit a 30 year low last year, dropped

to 3.8 million according to the National Center for Health Statistics. But that number just punctuated what many of us

have known anecdotally for a long time.

And that is that there's this growing chorus of women who are happily choosing the child free life.

And that's why I'm so thrilled today to be joined by Maxine Trump,

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