TAIPEI — Wu En-tzu has delivered more than 2,000 babies working as an obstetrician but she has no desire to have children of her own — an increasingly common position taken by Taiwanese families.
Since they married 12 years ago, Wu and her surgeon husband have been on the same page when it comes to kids.
“I just can’t find one single reason that I must have a child,” she told AFP at her office in an upscale clinic in Taipei.
“It’s not just me. Now many young people think: ‘Why do I have to get married and have babies? I don’t necessarily have to follow the traditional family values’.”
Few places have experienced quite as profound a demographic change as Taiwan.
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