Nearly one in five women in the UK do not have children. More than half (50.1%) of women in England and Wales born in 1990 were without a child when they turned 30 in 2020.

Today, women are saying what was once the quiet part out loud: that a life without children can still be full, joyful, and deeply fulfilling.

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