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Low fertility is about liberation, not economics
This month, the Center for Disease Control reported that birth rates had dropped again, for the fourth year in a row, bottoming out under 4 million babies born for the first time since 1998....
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Emailing (in angst) about other people’s second pregnancies
Otis reading my Time article on only children. From the when things start getting real files: I wanted to share an email exchange I had with my dear friend Julia this morning. Julia is a psychologist...
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The trouble with idealizing what we don’t have
You may have seen the Motherlode post written by an unhappy only child this week in the New York Times. It’s fairly typical of its ilk: my mother wanted more children, and I wanted siblings, and...
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Having it All by Raising Only One?
Here’s what we don’t talk about when we talk about having it all: mothering less. Not willful child negligence, but simply having one kid, and no more. I’ve watched most of my friends tread into the...
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