There was one area where women beat the men: guilt. None of the men who wanted kids felt guilty about not having them, compared with 16 percent of women.
The survey was conducted with an online questionnaire among adults ages 20 to 66, with an average age of 41. Most were white, heterosexual and had full-time jobs.
In another poll of 125 people who were already parents, Hadley found that women who wanted more children had higher levels of anger, depression, guilt, isolation, sadness and yearning than men when they thought about not being able to have more kids.
Whereas the focus of this study was childless adults who wanted kids, it’s important to note that not all people without children are the same. There are those who choose to be childfree and those facing infertility, job demands or financial concerns.
An American study published last year found that women who choose to be childfree felt more pressure to reproduce than other women without children, but they weren’t so distressed about their life without kids. Meanwhile, women who wanted children but did not have them because of fertility or medical issues were the most distressed, according
to those results, published in The Journal of Marriage and Family.
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