{"id":8754,"date":"2021-11-19T10:58:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:56:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:56:20","slug":"growing-share-of-childless-adults-in-u-s-dont-expect-to-ever-have-children","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2021\/11\/19\/growing-share-of-childless-adults-in-u-s-dont-expect-to-ever-have-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing share of childless adults in U.S. don\u2019t expect to ever have children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Note:<\/em><\/strong><em> For newer survey data on adults without children, read our 2024 report <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/social-trends\/2024\/07\/25\/the-experiences-of-u-s-adults-who-dont-have-children\/\">\u201cThe Experiences of U.S. Adults Who Don\u2019t Have Children.\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Birth rates in the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/05\/us\/us-birthrate-falls-covid.html\">dropped during the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a> amid the twin public health and economic crises, lending evidence to predictions from early on in the outbreak that economic uncertainty might trigger a baby bust. This continued the downward trend in U.S. fertility rates, which were already at a <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2021\/05\/07\/with-a-potential-baby-bust-on-the-horizon-key-facts-about-fertility-in-the-u-s-before-the-pandemic\/\">record low<\/a> before the pandemic began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new Pew Research Center survey finds that a rising share of U.S. adults who are not already parents say they are unlikely to ever have children, and their reasons range from just not wanting to have kids to concerns about climate change and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"border-width:1px;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);--block-gap: inherit\" class=\"is-style-alternate wp-block-prc-block-collapsible has-background has-ui-beige-very-light-background-color has-border-color has-ui-beige-dark-border-color\" id=\"how-we-did-this\" data-wp-interactive=\"{&quot;namespace&quot;:&quot;prc-block\\\/collapsible&quot;}\" data-wp-context=\"{&quot;collapsibleId&quot;:&quot;how-we-did-this&quot;,&quot;isOpen&quot;:false}\" data-wp-class--is-open=\"context.isOpen\" data-wp-init--scroll-into-view=\"callbacks.onInitScrollIntoView\"><div class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible__title\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"><div>How we did this<\/div><button class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible__icon\"><span data-wp-bind--hidden=\"context.isOpen\"><i class=\"icon icon-library__light icon__circle-plus\"><svg style=\"width: 1em; height: 1em;\"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/plugins\/prc-icon-library\/build\/icons\/sprites\/light.svg#circle-plus\"><\/use><\/svg><\/i><\/span><span data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!context.isOpen\" hidden><i class=\"icon icon-library__light icon__circle-minus\"><svg style=\"width: 1em; height: 1em;\"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/plugins\/prc-icon-library\/build\/icons\/sprites\/light.svg#circle-minus\"><\/use><\/svg><\/i><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-prc-block-collapsible__content\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pew Research Center conducted this study to learn more about Americans who don\u2019t expect to have children in the future and the reasons they give.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This analysis is based on 3,866 U.S. adults ages 18 to 49, collected as a part of a larger survey conducted Oct. 18-24, 2021. Everyone who took part is a member of the Center\u2019s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way, nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/our-methods\/u-s-surveys\/the-american-trends-panel\/\">ATP\u2019s methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Fertility-topline_final.pdf\">the questions used<\/a> for this post, along with responses, and <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fertility-intentions-methodology_final.pdf\">its methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-420-wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2021\/11\/19\/growing-share-of-childless-adults-in-u-s-dont-expect-to-ever-have-children\/ft_2021-11-19_havingchildren_01-png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13000\"><img data-dominant-color=\"dcdece\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #dcdece;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" height=\"445\" width=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_01.png?w=420\" alt=\"A bar chart showing that the share of non-parents younger than 50 who say they are not likely to have children is up from 2018\" class=\"wp-image-13000 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_01.png 840w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_01.png?resize=283,300 283w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_01.png?resize=768,814 768w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_01.png?resize=382,405 382w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_01.png?resize=200,212 200w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_01.png?resize=260,275 260w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_01.png?resize=310,328 310w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_01.png?resize=420,445 420w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_01.png?resize=640,678 640w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_01.png?resize=740,784 740w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_01.png?resize=160,170 160w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_01.png?resize=320,339 320w\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some 44% of non-parents ages 18 to 49 say it is not too or not at all likely that they will have children someday, an increase of 7 percentage points from the 37% who said the same in a 2018 survey. Meanwhile, 74% of adults younger than 50 who are already parents say they are unlikely to have more kids, virtually unchanged since 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among parents and non-parents alike, men and women are equally likely to say they will probably not have kids (or more kids) in the future. Perhaps not surprisingly, adults in their 40s are far more likely than younger ones to say they are unlikely to have children or to have more children in the future. Some 85% of non-parents 40 to 49 say this, compared with 37% of those younger than 40. And while 91% of older parents say they probably won\u2019t have more kids, 60% of younger parents say the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A majority (56%) of non-parents younger than 50 who say it\u2019s unlikely they will have children someday say they just don\u2019t want to have kids. Childless adults younger than 40 are more likely to say this than those ages 40 to 49 (60% vs. 46%, respectively). There are no differences by gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-310-wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2021\/11\/19\/growing-share-of-childless-adults-in-u-s-dont-expect-to-ever-have-children\/ft_2021-11-19_havingchildren_02-png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13006\"><img data-dominant-color=\"e1e3de\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #e1e3de;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" height=\"558\" width=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_02.png?w=310\" alt=\"A bar chart showing that the majority of childless adults say the reason they probably won\u2019t have kids is that they just don\u2019t want to\" class=\"wp-image-13006 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_02.png 620w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_02.png?resize=167,300 167w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_02.png?resize=569,1024 569w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_02.png?resize=225,405 225w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_02.png?resize=200,360 200w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_02.png?resize=260,468 260w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_02.png?resize=310,558 310w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_02.png?resize=420,756 420w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_02.png?resize=160,288 160w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_02.png?resize=320,576 320w\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among childless adults who say they have some other reason for thinking they won\u2019t have kids in the future, no single reason stands out. About two-in-ten (19%) say it\u2019s due to medical reasons, 17% say it\u2019s for financial reasons and 15% say it\u2019s because they do not have a partner. Roughly one-in-ten say their age or their partner\u2019s age (10%) or the state of the world (9%) is a reason they don\u2019t plan to have kids. An additional 5% cite environmental reasons, including climate change, and 2% say their partner doesn\u2019t want children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-310-wide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2021\/11\/19\/growing-share-of-childless-adults-in-u-s-dont-expect-to-ever-have-children\/ft_2021-11-19_havingchildren_03-png\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13012\"><img data-dominant-color=\"e1e4de\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #e1e4de;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" height=\"560\" width=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_03.png?w=310\" alt=\"A bar chart showing that age, medical reasons top the list for why some parents don\u2019t expect to have more kids\" class=\"wp-image-13012 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_03.png 620w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_03.png?resize=166,300 166w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_03.png?resize=567,1024 567w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_03.png?resize=224,405 224w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_03.png?resize=200,361 200w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_03.png?resize=260,470 260w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_03.png?resize=310,560 310w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_03.png?resize=420,759 420w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_03.png?resize=160,289 160w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/ft_2021.11.19_havingchildren_03.png?resize=320,578 320w\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When it comes to 18- to 49-year-old parents who say they are unlikely to have <em>more<\/em> children in the future, again a majority (63%) say it\u2019s because they just don\u2019t want to. Fathers (69%) are more likely to say this than mothers (59%), as are parents younger than 40 (71%) when compared with those 40 to 49 (57%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among those younger than 50 who say there was some other reason why they probably will not have more children, age (theirs or their partner\u2019s) and medical reasons were among the top reasons why (29% and 23% of this group said so, respectively), followed by financial reasons (14%) and the fact that they already have kids (11%). Smaller shares cite the state of the world (4%), not having a partner (2%) or having a partner who doesn\u2019t want kids (2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mothers and fathers generally give similar reasons for saying it\u2019s unlikely they will have more children, but mothers are more likely than fathers to mention medical reasons (27% vs. 16%), while fathers are more likely than mothers to cite already having kids (18% vs. 6%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About a quarter of parents younger than 40 who don\u2019t expect to have more children in the future cite financial reasons (26%), compared with 8% of those 40 to 49. The younger group is also more likely to mention not having a partner (6% vs. 1%), while older parents are more likely to say age is a reason why they don\u2019t expect to have more kids (41% of those 40 to 49 vs. 5% of those younger than 40).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Note: Here are <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Fertility-topline_final.pdf\">the questions used<\/a> for this post, along with responses, and <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fertility-intentions-methodology_final.pdf\">its methodology<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reasons Americans without children don&#8217;t expect to have them range from just not wanting to have kids to concerns about climate 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