If You're Afraid You'll Regret Not Having Kids, Read This

There’s a lot of societal pressure to have children, but many people struggle with whether it’s right for them.There’s a phrase that psychotherapist Eunice Cheung often hears, in one form or another, from her clients who are women in their mid-20s and 30s: “Time is ticking.”Many are also dealing with “parental FOMO”: They’re on the fence about having kids, but they worry that one day, they’ll feel they’ve missed out on some integral part of life.“This often translates to people putting pressure on themselves and onto their partner to get in line with the ‘timeline’ that society has prescribed by a certain age: Buy a house, get married, have kids,” Cheung told HuffPost.“No one has ever taught us as women that it’s OK to question, to slow down, to ask ourselves if this is what we want or this is something we have been told to want,” she said.Ultimately, no one knows if they’ll be more satisfied or less satisfied with kids ― though one 2022 study from researchers at Michigan State Univers