# Childfree by Choice  ## Metadata - Author: [[Amy Blackstone]] - Full Title: Childfree by Choice - Category: #books ## Highlights - I’ve also learned from my students’ research on the subject, including a survey of over seven hundred childfree women and men, which found that women experience the stigma of their choice more deeply than other childfree people. ([Location 105](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQW9Y&location=105)) - It is part of a larger conversation about how we make choices about our reproductive lives, our families, our work, our free time, and how we’ll age. It is about how we navigate the public consequences of our personal choices, who controls those choices, and how scientific discovery and new options for how we form bonds and plan for our futures shape our lives. I realized that this “moment” is so much more than a moment, and so much bigger than our own announcement that we weren’t having a baby ourselves. ([Location 149](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQW9Y&location=149)) - the pressure to realize their supposed “natural instincts” is much higher on women—but men are not entirely off the hook. ([Location 187](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07HLQQW9Y&location=187))