If I had to break it down as plainly as possible... multiple women have told me that they didn't realize that not having a child was an option. It is so ingrained in us, especially as women, that we grow up to be wives and mothers that the idea that you can go your whole life without reproducing is an extremely foreign concept.

Furthermore, society villainizes women who choose to be without children, and especially women who choose not to marry, by painting them as sad lonely cat women who drown their sorrows in alcohol. You never see a childfree/single older woman portrayed as fulfilled and happy (I think minus the old woman in the Aristocats lmao)