Last weekend’s bombing of an in vitro fertilization clinic in Palm Springs, California, was not merely shocking for its violence. The arguably more disturbing aspect of this tragic event is the bleak ...

Sukenick describes her "perfect solution" to the problem of human suffering as "unplug(ging) the universe so there was nothing." If this is her takeaway from the Holocaust, she has learned the wrong ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Ana Ciani describes herself as a “regular, loving mom” of two children. But she thinks she shouldn't have had them. Ciani enjoys cheering on her 8-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son at swim meets ...

A 27-YEAR-OLD made headlines after vowing to sue his parents for giving birth to him without his consent. We explain what is antinatalism, if you did consent to being born and why Raphael Samuel is ...

Elon Musk believes the collapsing birth rate is humanity's biggest danger. But antinatalists argue having kids is little more than a procreational Ponzi scheme, and the risks are real. This is the ...

Society has come a long way in making space for maternal ambivalence and the childfree movement, but those frameworks ask whether we want to have children, not whether we should When I first started ...

In 2019 a businessman in India named Raphael Samuel filed suit against his own parents. The plaintiff’s complaint? His parents brought him into this world without his consent. The sheer immensity of ...

A growing number of people, including a 27-year-old gent in Mumbai – called ‘antinatalists’ – think so. But what is antinatalism? Here’s all you need to know about this once-fringe idea. A growing ...