What is this grief? And why are we so silent about it?

These are just two of the questions that Sian Prior, a former columnist for The Age, set out to answer in her new book, Childless: A Story of Freedom and Longing. In this episode, we discuss the long road to acceptance faced by a rising tide of women in the West who wanted children but didn’t have them.

Hosted by Good Weekend editor Katrina Strickland, this intensely personal, one-on-one discussion examines the particular grief and deep reckoning that comes with wanting a child and not having one, but also the unfair labels lobbed at childless women, including “selfish” or “careerist”.

You can read an excerpt from Sian's book here.

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