Framing nonparents as valid and socially legitimate
The article positions the study as a tool for nonparents to counter social pressure, explicitly challenging stigma and calling societal condescension toward childlessness 'unsavoury' and 'distasteful'. This is a clear push for inclusion.
“If these findings are to be believed, they should be cheering to those of us who have always found society’s condescension toward, and dismissal of, nonparents somewhat unsavoury, and the consistent hectoring of them to join the parenting fold distasteful.”
