Studies demonstrate a clear tendency about families without children, actually is more common to find them, moreover in western countries. The present essay is going to show some advantages and disadvantages to couples having no children.

On one hand, there is an economic fact: families without babes can save a big amount of money, which can make their lifes easier. The extra money can be spent in more education, travels, and activities to enjoy the life. In addition, is well known that many women are more worried about their role in the work and business than the maternal role, which pushes them to abandon the beautiful gift of having a baby. Also, for the couple, there will be more time to focus on developing their professional careers, as well as spending time on themselves as a couple, very common concerns found in the new generations of workers and lovers. The reason why this happen more in the western countries is because there is more competition at work, and it forces people to worry about ensuring a good job, even more than having a child.

On the other hand, families without children lose the opportunity of raising a son, which can be described by some philosophers like “the meaning of life”. Surely these families will feel lonely in their old ages, because there won’t be someone who cares about them. It is important to mention that many marriages fail because of the frustration of not having children (obviously they realize about that when they have passed the proper age to have a baby).

To conclude, have a childless family is not a good or bad choice, what really matter is whatever the couples decide, they have to do it for the right reasons and without regrets.