Who wants to have a baby these days, anyway?
Media and pop culture often portray young women as baby-seeking, family-craving, biological clock-ticking time bombs. (Think Monica on Friends, or even the infamous Billie Jean with her “schemes and plans” in Michael Jackson’s hit song by the same name.)
But the reality may be quite different, because new research has yet again suggested that it’s childless men, not women, who are more likely to say they want to be parents some day.
Just over one-fifth (21 per cent) of childless women aged 18-34 recently polled by Pew Research Centre said they don’t ever want to be parents, compared to 15
