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May 2024
50m 32s

try before you buy... but with kids?

Emma Neill
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It feels like everyone around me is getting engaged and announcing that they're pregnant, and it's making me think... how do people know that they want kids, when it's not something you can test out before deciding?! As someone who has never envisioned their life with kids in the future, this decision or pressure of having a 'biological clock' haunts me.

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