{"id":83044,"date":"2022-08-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83044"},"modified":"2022-08-08T08:14:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T13:14:24","slug":"conversations-id-like-to-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83044","title":{"rendered":"Conversations I&#8217;d Like To Have"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Roughly a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wate.com\/news\/watercooler\/more-than-1-in-5-us-adults-dont-want-children\/\"> fifth of American adults don&#8217;t want to have children<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Our estimate of the number of childfree people is much higher than\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/4122892\">past national studies<\/a>, which placed the percentage between 2% and 9%. This likely happened because our measurement focuses on a person\u2019s desire to have children, not their ability. This is important because a person can be childfree whether they are biologically capable of having children or not&#8230;Our findings depart from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1300\/J002v02n02_01\">research conducted in the 1970s<\/a>, which found that childfree adults tended to arrive at their decision later in life after postponing parenthood for many years. Earlier decisions may reflect changing norms toward parenthood and an increasing recognition and acceptance of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/241\/having-it-all-without-having-children\/\">childfree lifestyle<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Before you ask?  The study does in fact distinguish between people who haven&#8217;t decided yet, and those who <em>can&#8217;t <\/em>have children for medical reasons.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bad news:  this means 20% of Americans aren&#8217;t going to be bringing anyone into the world to take care of them &#8211; literally, financially, politically any other way &#8211; when they get to the stage of their life when they need help.  Someone else&#8217;s kids will be taking care of all that &#8211; from paying Medicare taxes to literally changing their diapers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news:  They are disproportionally, although not completely or overwhelmingly &#8211; in Blue America. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly a fifth of American adults don&#8217;t want to have children: Our estimate of the number of childfree people is much higher than\u00a0past national studies, which placed the percentage between 2% and 9%. This likely happened because our measurement focuses on a person\u2019s desire to have children, not their ability. This is important because a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83045,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83044\/revisions\/83045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}