🔬 Science Aug 13, 2026 · Michigan State

Childfree people are more common in some states than others

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Childfree people are more common in some states than others
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Researchers have found that childfree people are more common in some states than others.
“We’ve known that childfree adults were a large and growing group in the United States, but not whether they were concentrated in certain places,” says Zachary Neal, professor of psychology at Michigan State University and coauthor of the study.
“These new data show that there’s a lot of variation. One in five are childfree in California and Michigan, but only one in ten are chi

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