No Kids No Regrets: Is Choosing To Be Childfree Selfish?

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Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 30 November 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Phil enters the debate around the increasingly popular choice to NOT have children. Amy and Lance are a childfree couple of over 30 years. Emily is a childfree woman who says she is more than her reproductive organs. Scarlett is a mother of 4, Shane is a father of 5, and Terry is a father of 7 and they all say childfree people are selfish and will regret their choices when they’re older and lonely.

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0:00.0	A nationwide trend that's stirring up a lot of controversy.
0:04.0	We together decided that we did not want to have children.
0:07.0	What's the main reason you don't want to have a child?
0:09.0	I want to live my life the way I want to.
0:12.0	To breed or not to breathe? That's the question.
0:15.0	The population is declining.
0:17.0	Social responsibility is a reason to have children.
0:20.0	No, it's not. You don't do it based on some
0:22.6	statistical model. That's insane. I know things and you're wrong.
0:35.6	Well, tonight we're talking about a nationwide trend that's stirring up a lot of controversy lately.
0:42.5	The active and conscious choice not to have children.
0:47.9	Ever.
0:49.3	In fact, many millennials in Gen Z are deliberately passing on parenthood and proud of it.
0:57.0	Why?
0:58.0	Because they say they don't want the responsibility.
1:02.0	They want to travel and be able to focus on career.
1:06.0	To put it simply, they just don't want to.
1:10.0	We're deans. We go on 10 vacations a year.
1:12.6	We're dinks. We spend our disposable income on months like boats.
1:16.6	We're married with no kids. We can listen to music that we want to instead of cocoa melon.
1:22.6	We're married with no kids. We can sleep through the night.
1:25.6	Something I cannot get over is the way that people try to convince women who are child-free by choice
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