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Do We Secretly Envy the Childfree?

Or is childlessness still a taboo?

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Katie Roiphe, professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, is the author most recently of Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages, and the forthcoming In Praise of Messy Lives.