Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Getty As the pandemic's "baby bust" shows, the desire to have kids just isn’t there like it was before. Child-free women are having a bit of a moment in the media. “Why many women are intentionally opting out of parenthood,” one recent Today Show headline said. “Choosing ‘child-free’ does not equate to a dislike for children,” the subhed added — lest we think these women are baby-disinterested jerks. Last month, The New York Times ran a photo series by Zoë Noble, a photographer in Berlin who’s capturing the lives and stories of the “consciously child-free.”