Writing in the Spectator, Eleanor Mills is an authentic voice of her generation: “The fact is that girls like me—i.e., healthy, hearty, middle-class women in their 20s—are just not breeding.”8 Why not? Because, she writes, “my generation’s twin preoccupations are, unfortunately, looks and money.”9 She quotes one of her many childless contemporaries: “If I had a kid,” said Jane, an advertising executive, thoughtfully, “I wouldn’t be able to do half the things I take for granted. Every Saturday at 10:30 A.M. when we are still in bed, my husband and I look at each other and just say, ‘Thank God
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