National Post

To be (and not have) kids: How aunthood makes putting it off that much easier
It’s not a question of “if” kids are for me, but “when,” except that “when” is never “now,” and is always a distant, Elysian “later” that realistically is not in the next, say, three years. Having kids has never been on my immediate radar, since I am among the twenty- and thirtysomething women who went after careers and independence (as we were once told to do by our teachers and bosses and parents) instead of the right kind of men and the subsequent house and kids (as we’re now being told to do by our magazines and doctors and parents). (Illustration by Kagan McLeod)