> I’ve realised there is a well of pain surrounding the question of motherhood; among childless women who want to become mothers; childfree women who face stigma; and even mothers, too, who feel chronically misunderstood. The real culprit in all of this is, of course, the patriarchy.
What utter trash article. Not only is the patriarchy completely antithetical to reduced fertility, but most childless women are absolutely so by choice, because they have unreasonably high standards and frequently are poor partners themselves.
The source (no comment on quality) is cited in a secondary Guardian article:
> But who are the childless and how many of them wanted children? The closest we can come is a 2010 meta-analysis by the Dutch academic Prof Renske Keiser[2], which suggested that only 10% of childless women actively chose not to become mothers. That leaves 90% of women like Day. Only 9% of that 90% are childless for known medical reasons [1].
"One in five women are childless at midlife, with about 90% of those in that position not by choice."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/07/chasm-...