[Opinion] Stop Telling Women When to Have a Baby

Stop Telling Women When to Have a Baby

Young women have never struggled to find people with opinions about when they should have a baby, and that is especially true these days, across the political spectrum.Recently, the liberal podcaster Dax Shepard said he was talking with his 11-year-old daughter, Delta, about how she wanted to be a mother one day. “When do you think you’ll have your first child? When you turn 18?” he asked her. The sixth grader rejected her father’s suggestion th…

When will we stop telling women to have children?

Actor Jason Bateman recently caught heat for telling Charli XCX she might change her opinion on not wanting kids. Why are we still inferring that happily coupled, child-free women are unfulfilled?