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11: Millennials on Why Opting In/Out of Having Babies is More Complex than Ever, with Sharon Green from She Defined Mag

unRipe - Learning to Embrace the Childless Life

English - November 30, 2020 22:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MB
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Within the next couple of decades, the number of households without children is set to outnumber the number with children, through the idea of the "traditional family" on it head. In today's episode, I speak to Sharon Green, writer, editor and co-founded of She Defined, an Australian publication that tackles the challenges that face today's woman.

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Resources and articles referenced in the episode:
Millennials vs Gen X: Three-in-ten Millennials live with a spouse and child compared with four-in-ten of Gen Xers at a comparable age.
Childless couples 'on track to be Australia's most common family type' by Stephanie Corsetti
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-15/childless-households-on-the-rise/8528546
Helen Razer -  Work instability is stopping millennials from having kid https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/voices/family/article/2018/01/17/work-instability-stopping-millennials-having-kids
Why a generation is choosing to be child-free by Sian Cain
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/25/why-a-generation-is-choosing-to-be-child-free

Sound engineering and original music by Jeff Willis. You can find his tunes on Spotify and iTunes