McKnight’s Senior Living July 29, 2024
Childless people — particularly “childless cat ladies” — have been in the news this past week due to a 2021 comment by JD Vance that has resurfaced now that the Ohio senator is the Republican nominee for vice president.
Interest in the old remarks comes just as the Pew Research Center — I’m assuming coincidentally — released a new study delving into the reasons some people do not have children, as well as how those decisions have affected their lives.
Politics and pets aside, all of the results are fascinating to me, but the parts that caught my eye had to do with the adults without biological or adopted children who were surveyed — all at least 50 years old...