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24.10.12 More Americans Are Saying No to Having Kids

ํ•˜๋Š˜์„ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋‹ฅํ„ฐ ๊ณ ์•„์› ์งฑ 2024. 10. 12. 22:52

A survey of American women shows that a growing numberโ€‹ do not want to have children.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋“ค์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ์„ค๋ฌธ ์กฐ์‚ฌ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์•„์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์ ์  ๋Š˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* a growing number... : ์ ์  ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ˆ˜

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In fact, the number has climbed 10 percent since 2018.

์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ทธ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ 2018๋…„ ์ดํ›„๋กœ 10% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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The researchers โ€‹broke down the reasons given, which included 57 percent who said they simply didn't want children.

์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ž๋“ค์€ ์ฃผ์–ด์ง„ ์ด์œ ๋“ค์„ ๋ถ„์„ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—” ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ž๋…€๋ฅผ ์›ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋‹ตํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด 57%๋‚˜ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* break down something : ~์„ ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜๋‹ค (to analyze something in detail)

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Other reasons for โ€‹opting out of having children included financial concerns, health issues, and even concerns about climate change.

์•„์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ด์œ ๋“ค์—๋Š” ์žฌ์ •์ ์ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ, ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ๋ฌธ์ œ, ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด ๊ธฐํ›„ ๋ณ€ํ™”์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๋„ ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* opt out of something : ~์—์„œ ๋น ์ง€๋‹ค, ~์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•˜๋‹ค (to choose not to participate in something)

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One respondent said she didn't understand why people โ€‹look down on her for not wanting to make her life more difficult.

ํ•œ ์‘๋‹ต์ž๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์‚ถ์„ ๋” ํž˜๋“ค๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์™œ ์ž์‹ ์„ ์—…์‹ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋Š”์ง€ ์ดํ•ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

* respondent : ์‘๋‹ต์ž

* look down on someone : ~๋ฅผ ์—…์‹ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋‹ค[์–•์žก์•„ ๋ณด๋‹ค]