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Women explain how they decided whether to have kids

An NPR series this week looks at why people are having fewer children and the impact. It’s called Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing the World.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with two women about the decisions they made. Jesse Sposato has one child, and Dr. Kimya Dennis chose to be childfree and is a sociologist and criminologist who studies Black childfree women.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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