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Beyond babies: even in once conservative societies, more and more couples are choosing not to have kids; that means good things for restaurants and real estate; but a backlash has already begun.(Cover story)
Byline: Stefan Theil (With Toula Vlahou in Athens, Barbie Nadeau in Rome, Silvia Spring in London, Akiko Kashiwagi in Tokyo, Karen Springen in Chicago and Tracy Mcnicoll in Paris)
At the fashionable Da Capo Cafe on bustling Kolonaki Square in downtown Athens, Greek professionals in their 30s and early 40s luxuriate over iced cappuccinos. Their favorite topic of conversation is, of course, relationships: men's reluctance to commit, women's independence, and when to have children--or, increasingly, whether to have them at all. "With the years passing my chances of having a child go down," says Eirini Petropoulou, a 37-year-old administrative assistant at the ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Beyond babies: even in once conservative societies, more and more...