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Being childfree by choice: five women on why they decided not to have kids

2020 · 7 min · English

Five women, ages and circumstances all different, explain on camera why they have decided not to have children and how strangers react when they find out. None of them frame it as a sacrifice, which is precisely what makes the series pointed.

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Why it's free: Free on The Guardian's own channel; the paper's US team produced it as part of its Childfree series.