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This chapter's unique contribution is the expansion of an empirical understanding of childfreedom in the United States, shown through narratives from a diverse group of women who voluntarily choose not to bear or rear children. I focus on the ways in which childfree women talk about and attempt to thwart or ameliorate negative ste reo types associated with childfreedom, an essential strategy in the wake of ongoing stigmatization of this group-in spite of media claims to the contrary.Recently circulating news media articles tout high numbers of childless women with headlines such as "More Women Than Ever Are Childless, Census Finds" (Zezima) and "A Rec ord Percentage of Women Don't Have Kids" (Gray). However, government statistics do not actually reflect these assertions. To explain, when one looks at the U.S. Census Bureau's nationally representative Current Population Survey (CPS) data for the group of people between fifteen and fifty years old, it does appear that there is the highest percentage (44.2 percent) of childless women in the United States since the survey began in 1976. Nevertheless, CPS data show that the percentage of childless women gets progressively lower as women

Author

Amanda Michiko Shigihara

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN