How Female Grievance Prevents Adulthood

The delayed-motherhood debate asks why women were sold a lie. The harder question is why so many were ready to believe it.

Pew recently found that women under 50 without children were more likely than men to say they simply did not want children, while young men without children were more likely than young women to say they wanted to become parents someday. This suggests a real shift in how young women imagine marriage, motherhood, and domestic life.

Frustratingly, the curre…