Voluntary childlessness or childfreeness is the choice to neither conceive nor adopt children. Use of the word childfree was first recorded in 1901 and entered common usage among second-wave feminists
An early twentieth-century postcard of a woman fighting a stork bringing her a child.
Antinatalists such as philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer argued that having children is inherently wrong.
Two dogs in a stroller in Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2023). Some young Taiwanese prefer pets to children.
Natalism is a policy paradigm or personal value that promotes the reproduction of human life as an important objective of humanity and therefore advocates a high birthrate.
Voluntary childlessness
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Uruguayan poet Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, surrounded by his family. Twice married, he fathered 16 children during his life.
Parking place for families with children, residential area. Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland
Two families by Mihály Munkácsy (1877)