More and more people these days are becoming childfree by choice, in turn celebrating time, freedom, and opportunities they have reserved for themselves. Meanwhile, economists have pointed to the fact that the fertility rate has fallen every year since 2007, as the Great Recession made millennials put off child-rearing for years.
But in order to get a glimpse of what childfree life is really like, you have to look at what people who opt out of having babies have to say about it. So we looked at the corner of Reddit “Childfree,” which is a place for discussion of the childfree lifestyle.
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April 26, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The procurement of vaccine has become problematic even for developed countries, but Pakistani authorities have envisaged targets to ensure vaccination for 70 million people by end of this ongoing calendar year.
India had slapped a ban on exporting its vaccine so it created difficulties for Pakistan because Islamabad had earlier envisaged plans to procure maximum vaccine from its neighbouring country.
However, Pakistani authorities made alternate plans and seemed confident that the daily vaccination would soon touch 100,000 persons per day basis. They are expecting that the vaccination per day might go up to 200,000 per day in coming weeks and months as it was getting momentum in the country. They would be able to meet growing requirement of vaccine on daily basis.
We are drowning in insecurity : Young people and life after the pandemic
26 Apr, 2021 02:18 AM
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Many young people feel the social contract has been broken as generational inequality widens. Photo / 123RF
Many young people feel the social contract has been broken as generational inequality widens. Photo / 123RF
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By: Sarah O’Connor Akin Ogundele did everything right. A born and bred Londoner and the son of immigrants, he worked hard, went to university, found a good job in the financial sector, got married and had children. But at the age of 34, he feels stuck.
He and his wife and two children live in a rented flat because even with their two salaries they cannot afford to buy in their home city. After decades of accelerating housing costs, the average deposit used to buy a first home in London has risen well above £100,000 ($192,700). Ogundele has seen colleagues buy homes with help from their parents, but he doesn t have