Having children, in this world, is one of the greatest acts of optimism that I can imagine
People love to talk about how millennials aren’t having children. By people I mean my mother. And by millennials I mean me. War, economic crisis, housing shortages, the climate emergency, nothing – and I mean nothing – will stop my mother from wondering aloud when exactly she will “get to be a grandmother”. She even has her friends in on it too, with drive-by enquiries as to when I’ll “settle down” fired from...