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EPISODE · Nov 20, 2025 · 53 MIN

Celebrating a childfree life, and should you make amends if you were a bully as a kid?

from Life Matters - Full program podcast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

According to the last census, there were 2.6 million Aussie couples without children...  and projections that couple-only families are set to increase in the country. Not only that, there's also been a cultural shift:  People without children have a growing visibility... they're more likely to share and celebrate their lives. Tanya Williams is the author of A Childfree Happily Ever After and Dr Imogene Smith is a Clinical Psychologist at the Cairnmillar Institute.Today's Ask Aunty letter-writer is in a reflective mood about the way he treated a classmate many years ago. Should he try to make amends? Today's aunties are James Findlay, ABC broadcaster and journalist, and Monica Dux, writer, commentator, and columnist. 

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