First US Census Bureau Report on Growing Childless Older Adult Population
This hits really close to home. Everyone in my close friend group (5-8 people) and their spouses are all childless, for various different reasons. I&#x27;ve never been good at romance or  relationships, so I feel the clock ticking as well.<p>I really don&#x27;t know how much of this can be attributed to modernity or personality. A man not having children is apparently the norm throughout human history.<p>I do find it fascinating, though, that if I do not have children, I will be the end of a direct line that stretches back four billion years to the dawn of life itself. And, I will be the first in this direct line of descent NOT to have a son. It&#x27;s simple, but amazing, to realize that I am the son of a father, his father, his father, ... etc all the way back to when sexual reproduction began.