What is driving the increasing number of people in Western societies who are choosing to be childfree – and how is academia responding to that decision? 

This month, Broadly Conceived are holding an informal book-club style conversation, inviting scholars from any discipline to discuss what is still one of the most controversial repro-related decisions: to not have children.

As a starting point, the group will discuss two short texts: a 2023 Washington Post article, ‘Millennials Aren’t Having Kids: Here’s Why’; and a New Books Network interview with Rachel Chrastil about her book How To Be Childless: A History and Philosophy of Life Without Children (Oxford University Press, 2019).

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