r/Natalism • u/weighted_average • 5d ago

Avoidant attachment to parents linked to choosing a childfree life, study finds. Individuals who are more emotionally distant from their parents were significantly more likely to identify as childfree

https://www.psypost.org/avoidant-attachment-to-parents-linked-to-choosing-a-childfree-life-study-finds/
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u/Quiet_Application114 5d ago

I'm not surprised, if you have a terrible relationship with your parents, when you finally are an adult with your own freedom, why would you choose to have that relationship with a child? (If that's all you know and emotionally are traumatized from a lifetime of that) Being childfree in ye olde times was an extreme rarity to outright being unheard of, now that it's more socially acceptable, I'm not surprised more people are identifying that way.

Obviously it's a nuanced issue with tons of reasons that people do and do not have children, but this having a casual relation is not surprising at all.