The Children I Never Had

The idea of parenting alone felt impossible.

When I was younger I always assumed that I would have children. It was a given. No, “Would I?” or “Wouldn’t I?” In the 1960s and 1970s, even with the Women’s Liberation movement on the rise, there was still an expectation that girls grow up to be women who have kids. We get married, we get pregnant, and we raise children. Or we adopt, or marry into a fa…