Childfree Citizens!

What happens when a woman wants to be childfree? Does society still make a childless woman feel incomplete.
More and more women are now opting to be childfree. Author Manju Kapoor says, ���Isn���t it time to be mature enough and accept childfree women?���
For most women caught in a family-trap having a child is part of the ���marriage deal���. Model Shefali Talwar strongly feels, ���A childless woman doesn���t feel incomplete anymore.��� Reena Mehra, 32, entrepreneur confesses how her inability to have children often invites sympathy, ���But I don���t care.��� Dr Manju Khemani, gynaecologist, points out, ���The taboo of childlessness is far more acute in the semi-urban towns.��� No matter, what heights a woman scales in the corporate world she is declared truly successful only when she becomes a mother.Not anymore. In fact women who are ambitious, don���t want to have children.
Nilofer Kaul, DU lecturer says, ���Most professional women don���t feel a sense of being incomplete if they don���t have children.���
The latest childfree phenomenon, as defined by childfree.net, means a deliberate individual choice of liberating oneself from ���the loss of personal freedom, money, time and energy that having children requires���.
How many women are comfortable being ���childfree���? Dr Avdesh Sharma, believes, ���Our society is essentially child-centric.��� Joyita Banerjee, an ad-executive, who does not want to start a family in the near future, confesses, ���It is easier to get sympathy by saying that I���m trying to start a family. Rather than declaring, ���I���m not interested���.���
Says Akhila Shivdas, of Center for Media Advocacy, ���The fact that the childfree option is available to women, reflects that the family is not an imposition or a sacrosanct norm any more.���