Why some couples are choosing a life without children
CBS Evening News
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But for many young'}, {'start': '19.520', 'end': '23.840', 'text': 'couples, there is no amount of money.'}, {'start': '22.160', 'end': '27.760', 'text': "Nikki Batist has tonight's Eye in"}, {'start': '23.840', 'end': '29.840', 'text': 'America from just west of Mara Lago.'}, {'start': '27.760', 'end': '31.920', 'text': 'You were everything that Tiana and PJ'}, {'start': '29.840', 'end': '34.320', 'text': 'Morales said their ideas do seven years'}, {'start': '31.920', 'end': '36.640', 'text': "ago. I'm super excited to take the next"}, {'start': '34.320', 'end': '38.640', 'text': 'step in our life. As newlyweds, they'}, {'start': '36.640', 'end': '40.800', 'text': 'traveled the world. And before too long,'}, {'start': '38.640', 'end': '43.200', 'text': 'they say family would ask if they plan'}, {'start': '40.800', 'end': '46.000', 'text': 'to have children. But the Florida couple'}, {'start': '43.200', 'end': '48.719', 'text': "says they're not having kids. Not now,"}, {'start': '46.000', 'end': '50.320', 'text': 'not ever. When you have told people'}, {'start': '48.719', 'end': '53.360', 'text': "you're child-free, what have the"}, {'start': '50.320', 'end': '57.440', 'text': "reactions been? Why? Yeah. I'll get"}, {'start': '53.360', 'end': '60.480', 'text': 'typically a blank stare or oh really'}, {'start': '57.440', 'end': '62.320', 'text': "like pity. Yeah, pity like you don't"}, {'start': '60.480', 'end': '65.360', 'text': "want you don't want a mini you running"}, {'start': '62.320', 'end': '67.840', 'text': 'around. Tiana, now 37, says when she was'}, {'start': '65.360', 'end': '70.400', 'text': "younger, she assumed she'd be a mom. But"}, {'start': '67.840', 'end': '72.560', 'text': 'after spending her early 20s as a nanny'}, {'start': '70.400', 'end': '75.119', 'text': 'caring for four kids at once, that'}, {'start': '72.560', 'end': '77.040', 'text': 'assumption changed. It just dawned on'}, {'start': '75.119', 'end': '79.759', 'text': 'me, is this what I would want to do'}, {'start': '77.040', 'end': '81.680', 'text': 'every single day? The US fertility rate'}, {'start': '79.759', 'end': '84.159', 'text': 'has plummeted in the last two decades'}, {'start': '81.680', 'end': '86.880', 'text': 'and now sits near record lows according'}, {'start': '84.159', 'end': '88.799', 'text': 'to CDC data released last week. Some'}, {'start': '86.880', 'end': '91.040', 'text': 'young adults say high costs are holding'}, {'start': '88.799', 'end': '93.280', 'text': 'them back. Others fear climate change or'}, {'start': '91.040', 'end': '96.720', 'text': 'are putting their careers first. But'}, {'start': '93.280', 'end': '99.520', 'text': "many say they simply don't want kids. We"}, {'start': '96.720', 'end': '101.759', 'text': 'are raised to believe that it is our'}, {'start': '99.520', 'end': '103.759', 'text': 'destiny to become parents. Amy'}, {'start': '101.759', 'end': '106.320', 'text': 'Blackstone and her husband Lance decided'}, {'start': '103.759', 'end': '108.079', 'text': 'years ago to be a family of just two.'}, {'start': '106.320', 'end': '110.240', 'text': 'Blackstone, a University of Maine'}, {'start': '108.079', 'end': '111.840', 'text': 'sociology professor, has published a'}, {'start': '110.240', 'end': '114.640', 'text': 'number of studies on those who call'}, {'start': '111.840', 'end': '117.119', 'text': 'themselves child-free by choice.'}, {'start': '114.640', 'end': '119.439', 'text': 'Child-free person will say, "I valued my'}, {'start': '117.119', 'end': '121.840', 'text': 'relationship with my partner so much'}, {'start': '119.439', 'end': '123.680', 'text': "that I didn't want another party"}, {'start': '121.840', 'end': '126.079', 'text': 'changing that relationship." A parent'}, {'start': '123.680', 'end': '128.239', 'text': 'will say, "The imagined relationship'}, {'start': '126.079', 'end': '130.640', 'text': 'with a child is so important to me that'}, {'start': '128.239', 'end': '133.599', 'text': 'I want that relationship for you. Was it'}, {'start': '130.640', 'end': '135.920', 'text': 'financial? Was it not finding the right'}, {'start': '133.599', 'end': '137.840', 'text': 'lifestyle?" When Tiana\'s friends began'}, {'start': '135.920', 'end': '140.000', 'text': 'having kids, she started organizing'}, {'start': '137.840', 'end': '142.239', 'text': 'occasional gettogethers for others who'}, {'start': '140.000', 'end': '143.440', 'text': 'want to be child-free. It just seems'}, {'start': '142.239', 'end': '145.200', 'text': 'like every time you turn on the news,'}, {'start': '143.440', 'end': '148.080', 'text': "something bad's happening. And it's just"}, {'start': '145.200', 'end': '149.920', 'text': 'not the world I want to raise a kid in.'}, {'start': '148.080', 'end': '152.959', 'text': "Can't control climate change. I think"}, {'start': '149.920', 'end': '156.400', 'text': "everything else is fixable, but that I'm"}, {'start': '152.959', 'end': '159.280', 'text': 'not so sure. On a scale of 1 to 10, how'}, {'start': '156.400', 'end': '161.680', 'text': "confident are you in your decision? I'd"}, {'start': '159.280', 'end': '162.959', 'text': "say nine and a half. What's that half"}, {'start': '161.680', 'end': '164.879', 'text': 'point?'}, {'start': '162.959', 'end': '167.440', 'text': 'I grew up in a big family and the'}, {'start': '164.879', 'end': '172.800', 'text': 'holidays were always surrounded by a'}, {'start': '167.440', 'end': '174.640', 'text': "large family. It's fun. And so as I age,"}, {'start': '172.800', 'end': '175.720', 'text': 'what will holidays look like? Will they'}, {'start': '174.640', 'end': '179.840', 'text': 'be just as'}, {'start': '175.720', 'end': '182.640', 'text': "fun? I don't know. A choice theirs and"}, {'start': '179.840', 'end': '185.040', 'text': 'only theirs made with careful thought.'}, {'start': '182.640', 'end': '187.200', 'text': "For Eye on America, I'm Nikki Batist in"}, {'start': '185.040', 'end': '189.440', 'text': 'West Palm Beach, Florida.'}, {'start': '187.200', 'end': '191.440', 'text': 'Study found that over five years, the'}, {'start': '189.440', 'end': '193.840', 'text': 'share of childless adults under 50 who'}, {'start': '191.440', 'end': '197.360', 'text': "don't plan to have kids rose 10 points"}, {'start': '193.840', 'end': '199.360', 'text': 'to 47%. And about that $5,000 baby'}, {'start': '197.360', 'end': '201.760', 'text': 'bonus, estimates of the cost of raising'}, {'start': '199.360', 'end': '204.800', 'text': 'a child to the age of 18 are in the'}, {'start': '201.760', 'end': '204.800', 'text': 'hundreds of thousands.'}]