Children? Not for Everyone: Exploring Why Some Women Choose to Stay Childfree 🚫

Why do some women decide not to become mothers? What role do factors such as wars, environmental destruction, population growth, career or childcare play? What hurdles do these women face in society?

"You have a uterus, use it!" It’s an outrageous statement. Or is it outrageous NOT to have children? The film follows young women who’ve made a conscious decision not to have children. Where does the image of women as mothers originate and how has it changed over the centuries?

The film reflects on times when a woman without children was considered worthless to society, on decades when two German states each fought for more offspring in different ways, and shows the current situation. What has changed? Who decides on family planning today? And how does this impact modern society?

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