TIME Magazine Glamorizes Life Without Children

Time’s upcoming August 12, 2013 issue depicts a smiling couple lying together on a sandy white beach under the headline “The Childfree Life: When Having It All Means Not Having Children.”

The article begins with a story about a woman who decided she never wanted to have children, and further, never regretted that decision, followed by a weighty discussion of how our nation’s birthrate is currently the lowest it has ever been in its history:

“From 2007 to 2011, the most recent year for which there’s data, the fertility rate declined 9%. A 2010 Pew Research report showed that childlessness has risen across all racial and ethnic groups, adding up to about 1 in 5 American women who end their childbearing years maternity-free, compared with 1 in 10 in the 1970s.”

This ‘Childfree Life’s’ main agenda, as if you couldn’t guess it from the cover, only gets more obvious from there. It discusses the expense of having a child, noting that:

“…the sheer economic cost of raising a child—for a child born in 2011, an average of $234,900 until age 18, according to the USDA, and $390,000 if your household earns over $100,000—has made motherhood a formidable prospect for some women.”


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Not really... If someone wants to be a parent thats their choice... HOWEVER, then they need to accept that THEY will be taking care of that kid for the rest of their life!! Not just till said kid is 18, then throw out with the trash..

unfortunately true

It doesn't cost an average of 13,000-22,000 a year to raise a child. That is insane.

The smart, educated, well-bred people have stopped reproducing.

The not-so-bright Rachel Jeantels of the world are breeding like rabbits.

We are *LIVING* "Idiocracy."

Scary times indeed.

unfortunately true

? I spend about $20,000/year raising mine.

Not really... If someone wants to be a parent thats their choice... HOWEVER, then they need to accept that THEY will be taking care of that kid for the rest of their life!! Not just till said kid is 18, then throw out with the trash..

if just 1% of all the crap on GLP were true, then why in the hell would you bring a child into that type of world?

Smart people should be having kids. They would raise smart ones who would trump the idiots of the world.

if just 1% of all the crap on GLP were true, then why in the hell would you bring a child into that type of world?

See thats just it, why would an inteligent person do that? They wouldn't be intelligent anymore would they?

I have a solution for all the Baby daddies that make a baby and run .

Offer all males 25 and up, 5,000 dollars prize to undergo vasectomy. Its always reversible of course later on thru surgery. But watch who jumps at that 5,000 dollars, All the men that are done having kids or dont want kids or who simply want the buying splurge and drugs that 5,000 dollars will bring will jump at the chance.

I have a vasectomy. It doesnt change you in the least, and it only takes a short visit and you can return back to work same day if its office job, two days if you do lifting.

Its great.

Im a smart person, my idea would work. We dont promote vasectomies enough. it will weed out men that never cared for Fatherhood in the firstplace.

No, it's called not being a jackass and thinking about more than your self.

now if only you parents would remember this when you have a child that becomes a drug addicted, video game junkie, who refuses to work or move out!