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What has surprised me about childlessness

Mr J.D. Vance isn’t wrong about all of us. While most childless lives don’t conform to his cliche of atomised self-regard, mine does, more or less. Home is a rented

Mr J.D. Vance isn’t wrong about all of us. While most childless lives don’t conform to his cliche of atomised self-regard, mine does, more or less. Home is a rented of almost inhuman silence and orderliness. There being no kindergarten fees or sport utility vehicle to save for, the share of earnings that goes on food and wine would make Churchill tut. But there are bad things about childlessness, too. Some have come as a surprise to me. Since the world is so exercised about demographic decline, it might be a public service to air them. Let’s scare a few people into the labour ward, shall we?