Why woman doesn't want to have children.

Reflection paper

There was a time when a woman could not imagine their existence without the presence of children. Woman who didn’t want to procreate, were misunderstood, and people use to thing that they were weird and sometimes the society rejected them just because they didn’t want to be mothers. Now a days this concept has change and more woman started thinking that having children have been overrated , and society is becoming more flexible and open minded about this topic.

Even though society is starting to accept this concept, there still a lot of fight about it because some people says mean thinks and question women who doesn’t want to have children, and they start with comments like "there is a lot of women in the world that wants to become a mothers and they cant, and you that have everything to be one reject that gift ", or "if you never give birth you are never going to be a complete woman" or star talking abut abortion and that’s not the case because the fact that for your own decision you don’t have kids doesn’t mean that if you got pregnant you are going to abort. In the personal I think that if you don’t want children then you have to be responsible and use protection, but if because of your responsibility you got pregnant, you don’t have the right to abort. And that’s something that a lot of people can not understand. If you don’t want something you have to be careful enough to prevent that to happen, but when that happens to you , you got to deal with the responsibility of something that was your fault and find the best way possible to fix it, and by that, I am not saying that people should abort because there is other ways to deal with an unwanted children.

An other fact about it is that an increasing number of women decides that motherhood is a choice in your life, not the only one . The reasons given for not having children are diverse and very respectable.

Social explanations for this phenomenon are the expectations of women for a better social position, that involve higher education levels and better working positions, and that’s why in this time the number of children in certain countries have reduced.

Since the mid-2000s, birth rates in Europe, the United States and several Latin American countries have declined. Although a factor may be related to fertility problems, statistics show that most women who have no children have voluntarily chosen not to become mothers.

Along with the birth control came women's liberation and equality in the workforce, which has promoted the concept that women can "have it all": career, children love and a partner. However, in the words of Dr. Catherine Hakim, a sociologist

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