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“My new coworkers keep asking me if I have kids. What should I do?”
That’s the burning question we answer with the help of the childfree community, for someone who’s started a new job where the watercooler conversations are… not cool.
If you have a problem you'd like the community's help with, email hello@wearechildfree.com with "Ask WAC" as the subject line.
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Sunday Herald: Shirley Manson - ‘I’m not married anymore’
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We are Childfree podcast: Life just gets better and better, with Cindy Gallop
We are Childfree report: Unseen, Unheard & Undervalued
We are Childfree: Building Bridges at Work

Natasha is a British-Asian woman who was born with a bicornate uterus, who found out at 21 that carrying a child to term would be very difficult and dangerous.
This helped Natasha make a careful, considered choice about being childfree, but it was the final disappointment for her traditional Hindu parents who she’s now cut out of her life.
This was an eye-opening conversation about growing up in England as someone of South Asian heritage, being “not brown enough” for some people, and breaking free of your family’s rigid expectations to create a lovely childfree life for yourself.
Read Natasha’s story on We are Childfree: “It was very much a decision thrust upon me at a really young age so it’s probably why I’ve thought about it more than my peers.”
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We are Childfree community member Lisa Jansen is really living up to her idea of a “life done differently”.
Based in New Zealand, Lisa left her cosy corporate life behind to live in a van for a summer - which turned into 5 years on the road! She’s just published a memoir called Life Done Differently, in which she shares the ups, downs and all the life-changing experiences of full-time van life.
We’ll be discussing Life Done Differently in the We are Childfree book club on September 21st. To join in, become a We are Childfree member today!

How do you decide whether to have kids or not? That's the question from a self-proclaimed fencesitter that we put to the We are Childfree community for this episode of Ask WAC!
How can you even imagine life as a parent? How do you separate external pressures from your own inner feelings? Listen to find out!
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And if you have a question or problem you'd like the community's help with, email hello@wearechildfree with "Ask WAC" as the subject line, and we'll tap into the childfree hive mind for a future episode! 🐝

Do childfree people ever regret their decision? That's the burning question we put to the We are Childfree community for the very first episode of Ask WAC!
How many childfree people experience regret? Where does that regret come from? What does it feel like? Listen to find out!
Sources for this episode:The incredible We are Childfree community. Join us!MSU study confirms: 1 in 5 adults don’t want children — and they don’t regret it laterChildfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence by Dr Amy BlackstonePodcast: No regrets, with 78 year-old childfree trailblazer Marcia Drut-DavisRegrets, hot and cold on The History of Emotions Blog
If you have a question or problem you'd like the community's help with, email hello@wearechildfree with Ask WAC as the subject line, and we'll tap into the childfree hive mind for a future episode! 🐝
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Author Sari Botton calls her hysterectomy the best thing that ever happened to her, a true blessing. An older Gen Xer, she never felt entitled to choose not to be a mother, and at 40, found herself in a fertility clinic getting a diagnosis that gave her “permission” to live a happily childfree life. Sari has such a unique perspective, and it was amazing getting to talk about embracing a choice that was chosen for you, and the forces that want to strip us of our choices.
Check out Oldster Magazine, Sari’s incredible newsletter which explores what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.
Read “My biological clock can’t tick fast enough” by Sari Botton.
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