Free To Be Childfree
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🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
r/childfree is one of the fastest growing communities on Reddit and it's for people who do NOT want children. They don't want to be told why they should have them, how much they'll regret it if they don't, and how "selfish" they are for not "contributing to society." This choice is becoming more common, yet it's still questioned ferociously. We hear from some of these people and explore how this Reddit community offers support when friends and family don't.
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| 0:38.0 | I am a 34 year old Caucasian female. |
| 0:42.0 | I grew up in a rural town in the Pacific Northwest. |
| 0:47.4 | At a very young age, I did decide that I did not want to have children. |
| 0:53.0 | Hi, my name is Summer. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm from Kenya. |
| 1:02.5 | And I'm child free, which is very odd for the society that I've gone up in. |
| 1:10.7 | Since I was 18, I've been trying to have my troops tied to know a veil. |
| 1:16.8 | Society will always judge you anyway. |
| 1:20.8 | Just do whatever you want. That's what I see anyway. |
| 1:23.9 | Watching all of my friends have children now, |
| 1:26.6 | I can see how exhausted they are, financially, emotionally, |
| 1:31.6 | how depleted their relationships are because it's so difficult for them to be able to |
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