More and more women just want to be 'the cool aunt' instead of having their own kids
"Kids are expensive and sticky, and I would rather be the fun aunt that does crafts with them and has a beautiful home that doesn't have to be child-proofed," Taylor Schenker, 25, told Insider of her choice to not have children.,"Being an auntie has all the benefits of being a mom … and then I get to give them back and sleep for eight hours."Part of the allure of aunthood is the sense that it offers a chance to be creative with your identity, Sotirin said.
"The aunt becomes who she develops herself as, who she performs as," she said."You can be the loving aunt who shows up with presents all the time, or you can be an aunt who feels just like a mother." The more fluid connection between aunt and child is exactly what appeals to 35-year-old Haylie Swenson.
"There's freedom in that looseness, and I don't just mean the freedom to sleep as long as I want ," she told Insider in an email."Even the best parent-kid relationships have baggage, and I don't have that with my nieces and nephews. I don't have to do anything to teach them how to be people in a constantly changing, terrifying world. I get to just love them, be myself, and let them be themselves in turn.
Being an aunt also doesn't have to be defined by blood. Sotirin said there are a lot of"chosen families" these days, a concept
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