https://padlet.com/mylesfrankfurt/Myles_Frankfurt How many kids do you want, when? en-us 2022-03-22 15:02:03 UTC 2026-02-01 06:04:22 UTC hello@padlet.com mylesfrankfurt https://padlet.com/mylesfrankfurt/Myles_Frankfurt/wish/2152474660 https://ifstudies.org/blog/how-many-kids-do-women-want  ]]> 2022-04-21 18:03:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mylesfrankfurt/Myles_Frankfurt/wish/2152474660 mylesfrankfurt https://padlet.com/mylesfrankfurt/Myles_Frankfurt/wish/2152496882 https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/06/expert-andrea-parrot-calls-new-multi-dimensional-approach]]> 2022-04-21 18:18:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mylesfrankfurt/Myles_Frankfurt/wish/2152496882 mylesfrankfurt https://padlet.com/mylesfrankfurt/Myles_Frankfurt/wish/2152514728 https://www.statista.com/statistics/241535/percentage-of-childless-women-in-the-us-by-age/ ]]> 2022-04-21 18:30:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mylesfrankfurt/Myles_Frankfurt/wish/2152514728 mylesfrankfurt https://padlet.com/mylesfrankfurt/Myles_Frankfurt/wish/2152531870 I have always had an interest in why people do the things they do, why they make the decisions they make, and so on and so forth. One of the biggest decisions a person will make is deciding to have a kid. So I decided to research "How many kids do people want?" and ask the students of my grade. I hope to learn more about the decision-making process of how teenagers in my school decide why they want a certain amount of kids and under what circumstances. I will find this out through a survey. I believe that women will want to have fewer kids than men overall due to the fact that they have to actually bare the child as well as they will be more likely to want to adopt. Furthermore, I would guess that women would prefer to have kids at younger ages due to the fact that they mature faster and bearing a child is harder as you grow older.]]> 2022-04-21 18:42:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mylesfrankfurt/Myles_Frankfurt/wish/2152531870 mylesfrankfurt https://padlet.com/mylesfrankfurt/Myles_Frankfurt/wish/2165608057 Statista:
80% of women have a kid by ages 35 to 39. This supports the claim that women will prefer to have kids before they get older.  From ages 35 to 39 to ages 40 to 44, the amount of childless women only decreases by 5%, supporting the idea that women are less likely to have kids as they get older.

Cornell Chronicle:
This article talks about how women will want a kid at younger ages due to a lack of purpose in their life. Being a mother gives them purpose. If this is true in the people who I collect data from, more of the data will be skewed to women wanting kids at a younger age. 

Institute For Family Studies:
As women have more and more responsibilities in the modern-day, they have less time and desire to have kids, supporting my claim that women will want fewer kids overall than men. People tend to base how many kids they want on what people tell them is a good amount and what is socially considered normal. In the modern-day, it is considered better to have fewer kids so as to avoid the issues that come with bearing a child and monetary problems. ]]> 2022-05-01 04:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mylesfrankfurt/Myles_Frankfurt/wish/2165608057 mylesfrankfurt https://padlet.com/mylesfrankfurt/Myles_Frankfurt/wish/2165608073 Statista:
Less than half of women have kids at ages 25 to 29, countering my claim that girls will prefer to have kids at younger ages. At ages 30 to 34, one-third of women are still childless, a marginal amount. At ages 35 to 39, this drops to one-fifth of kids. This means that a decent amount of women are having kids at later ages, countering my claim.

Cornell Chronicle:
Women who live in poor living conditions are more likely to have kids at a younger age. Due to the fact that most of the women at my school are more likely to be richer than poor, more women will prefer to have kids at later ages.

Institute For Family Studies:
Women want more kids, but men want fewer kids. People face economic problems in their households, making them want to have fewer kids. A decrease in marriage rates results in fewer kids being born, but not because women want it this way.]]> 2022-05-01 04:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mylesfrankfurt/Myles_Frankfurt/wish/2165608073 mylesfrankfurt https://padlet.com/mylesfrankfurt/Myles_Frankfurt/wish/2165886205 1. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the average ideal amount of children among women was 3.5 kids. Ever since 1980 that number has decreased to around 2.5 kids and has remained as such ever since. A shift in culture shows a decrease in women's desire to have kids.

2. The Gallup survey, a survey that has been going on since the 1930s, and the GSS survey added in an option for "as many as you want" when asking women how many kids they want. Increasingly, more and more women answered the survey with "as many as you want". Because this value is not numerical and tells us nothing about how many kids women want, we can assume that women simply are unsure about how many kids they want. Due to this uncertainty and lack of a goal for how many kids they want, there is a clear lack of incentive to have kids. Because women don't know what they want, they won't know if they want kids or not, diminishing the chances of them having kids as well as their desire to have kids. To put it in perspective, let's say you are offered to invest 100 dollars into a company you barely know anything about and are told that it's a good investment by certain friends and family, but told the opposite by other friends and family. You probably wouldn't want to invest money into that company because it's too high of a risk. This is how it is for women who don't know how many kids they want, nor if they even want kids.

3. Overall, men have a higher desire to have children than women do, usually because women have to bear the child and give birth to it.

4. Women now have longer work hours and lower wages, thus they cannot support a family as well. In a post-nuclear family world, women have more responsibilities, and thus less time to raise a child.

5. The costs to raise a child have increased over time. Most women cannot afford these costs and can only sustain supporting themselves. Some women are even unable to support themselves and need outside help to maintain themselves.

6. Due to increased stress, having to work harder to sustain their lives, and so on, women have decreased their expectations for how many kids they will have as they believe it to be more reasonable to have fewer kids and to be easier on their life.

7. The current status quo around having kids is to have less of them. Increasingly, women are given incentives to have fewer or no kids. This is evident in the fact that women educated at the college level are less likely to desire or have kids because the more they understand the downsides to it, the less they want to have kids. As women have a better understanding of the struggles of bearing a child, their desire to have those kids decreases.]]> 2022-05-01 17:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mylesfrankfurt/Myles_Frankfurt/wish/2165886205 mylesfrankfurt https://padlet.com/mylesfrankfurt/Myles_Frankfurt/wish/2165891214 2022-05-01 17:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mylesfrankfurt/Myles_Frankfurt/wish/2165891214