#12: What is the Norm?
In life, many people do things as a result of either being told to, feeling they need to, or seeing other people around them doing similar things. Of course, we all have free will, but our free will is only active to a certain degree when it comes to dealing with social pressure on such a big scale.
Throughout our entire lives, we are constantly dealing with having to “tick boxes” of what the socially acceptable thing is to be doing. But what happens when you don’t necessarily want to be doing what everyone else is doing? Just because it isn’t the norm doesn’t mean that choosing to live child-free is a bad thing.