BirthGap: Unaddressed, it is the End of Us.
Not the fictional End of Us, either. The end of Homo Sapiens Sapiens. ELIZABETH NICKSON NOV 5, 2023 Jordan Peterson’s face morphed through a series of changes as he realized that nine out of ten women who don’t have children, wanted them. Ready to blame the culture of narcissism, he stalled confused, wrestling his face to neutral. I knew that fact from experience. For the many women I know who don’t have children, it is an abiding sorrow. From country to country, class to class, race to race, the sorrow is coruscating and it is ignored or diminished. Only one in ten women actually don’t want children. One in ten is infertile, but the rest who don’t have children and that is one-third of us and counting, wanted them. By the time they are in their 40’s and incapable, badly. Steven F Shaw searches for answers in Birth Gap , his masterwork documentary, the first part of which you can watch here . The most obvious is that they waited too long, thinking it was possible, their ‘career