Sarah Bexell—Age 46, Denver, Colorado
Growing up I assumed I would be a mom someday, but my university studies taught me about the environmental crises plaguing Earth due to human population growth and consumption. My career has focused on the 6th Mass Extinction…
Emma—Age 25
Because we love our unborn children, we are not having them. Growing up, I always joined in on conversations about how many kids I wanted in the future. I always said I wanted them because that’s what you do, and to say otherwise would have been unnatural– but I never felt a desire to be a mother emotionally.
Rebecca Dmytryk—Age 54, Los Angeles, CA
I grew up in the 70s. I knew then we were headed for crisis. I knew when I was 15, I didn’t want to bring a child into the world unless I felt things were going to get better, not worse.
Amy Vegan—San Francisco, CA
Environmental Science professors warned me in the early 1980s not to have children. They said by 2020-2030, the planet would be facing terrifying global conditions that will collapse our habitat by 2050…near term human extinction due to abrupt climate change. And here we are. I’m 54 and have no regrets.
It’s not sustainable to have children in our lifetime—Anonymous
At 21 years old, children of my own seem far far off in my mind– waiting until i finish college, until i settle somewhere, until, until, until. the problem that comes with that timeline is that cataclysmic climate change that is edging closer and closer. the change that is only becoming more real with every passing hottest day on record.
Stephanie Salveter—Age 50, St. Louis, MO
My name is Stephanie, I just turned 50 a few weeks ago and have never really wanted to have my own children. That doesn’t mean I don’t love babies, but I’m lucky enough to have friends who’ve had them that I get to love on whenever I want. It was just never something that was making my clock run fast.
Tim Carrera
My name is Tim, and as an orphan from the sixties I never wanted kids! Coincidentally I got adopted at age 5 into an all white family with 6 older sisters , so my entire childhood was hyper aware of the feminine mystique!
