#1229 Nandita Bajaj, Zachary Neal, and Jennifer Neal: Debunking Pronatalist Claims

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by three guests. A repeat guest, Nandita Bajaj, is the executive director of population balance, and I'm also joined by Zachary Neal, professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University, and he focuses most of his research on network backbones and child-free individuals, and also Jennifer. Watling Neal, professor of in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University, and she's interested in understanding the prevalence, characteristics, and experiences of child-free adults. And today we're going to talk about child-free choices, a critique of Stephen J.

Shaw's documentary Birth Gap. and pro-natalism and some other related topics. So welcome to all of you. Nandita, your return guest, nice to see you again. And Zach and Jennifer, nice to meet you.

Thank you, Ricardo. Great to see you. Thanks for having us on, Ricardo. Yeah, I'm looking forward to this conversation. Okay, so Jennifer, perhaps I will start with you.

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