CHILDREN, NO THANKS!

A deconstruction of triumphant motherhood

Synopsis

Since high school, director Thérèse Shechter has known she didn't want to have children. Supported by her family, she nonetheless wonders how one lives with this choice in a world where motherhood is sanctified.

She reviews decades of natality promotion, witch-hunts, and sterilization refused or forced based on skin color.

She also gives a voice to many "child-free" women, who take pleasure in deconstructing the discourse of triumphant motherhood.