It's reassuring to read about other people who don't want kids, but it's also an important impulse for people who have/want kids and tell young women "you'll change your mind when you get older". I loved the different approaches to not having kids as well as the different relationships to other peoples' children.
What did confuse me, was the amount of abortions in those essays. I feel like every women should be allowed to decide what happens to her body, but the apparent lack of information on contraceptives in American teens/twenty-somethings is alarming.