Not Having Children Is Another Choice We Should Be Discussing

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a freelance writer. He has served in senior editorial positions at a number of tech companies and has years of experience in health, science, and music writing.

In her new documentary, Maxine Trump tackles the topic of choosing not to procreate.

In 2015, Pope Francis stated that a society that does not surround itself with children is “depressed,” calling couples choosing not to procreate “selfish.” He followed that up by claiming that societies that multiply are “enriched, not impoverished.” Perhaps he hasn’t checked out the American public education system lately.

Ol’ Frank isn’t alone in this assessment. Numerous countries are concerned about dwindling populations, making economic arguments about why their nations’ women better get to

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Derek Beres:

a freelance writer. He has served in senior editorial positions at a number of tech companies and has years of experience in health, science, and music writing.

Publish date: 24.09.2020

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Agnieszka Wójcińska:

is a member of the Rekolektyw collective of reporters, established in 2014. Alongside Agnieszka, the collective consists of seven other young Polish reporters: Katarzyna Brejwo, Urszula Jabłońska, Kaja Puto, Małgorzata Rejmer, Ziemowit Szczerek, Maciej Wasielewski and Mirosław Wlekły. Rekolektyw operates on a simple premise: a few reporters work on one topic independently from each other, filtering it through their personal styles and sensitivities. The end-product is a book that presents several different perspectives on one problem. In 2015, the collective released an anthology of non-fiction essays, titled “Mur. Dwanaście Kawałków o Berlinie” [The Wall: Twelve Stories About Berlin] (Czarne Publishing House in cooperation with the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation), in which the association took a closer look at the Berlin landscape 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In May 2016, another collection was published, titled “Obrażenia. Pobici z Polską” [Abuse: Punching Poland] (Wielka Litera Publishing House). This time, their goal was to take a closer look at the problem of hate-speech in Poland, and to analyse reasons behind the worryingly common hostility of Poles towards the Other.

Agnieszka Wójcińska talks to Magdalena Braum, who works as a primatologist and veterinarian in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.

Agnieszka Wójcińska: How often do chimpanzees, patriarchal by nature, decide to pass power to the females?

Not Having Children Is Another Choice We Should Be Discussing

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