Jordan can barely remember a time when she didn’t feel like an adult. She grew up as the eldest child in an evangelical Christian family with a mother who was often bed-bound due to health problems and a father who worked long hours outside of the house. Jordan took on child care, laundry, and other parental duties starting at age 7. She also served as her parents’ confidante, constantly kept abreast of their financial and marital woes . By the time she was a teenager, she had lost all interest in ever becoming a parent . “I’d seen what that responsibility looks like and how it could consume your whole identity,” the 39-year-old says. She envisioned her adult life as child free.

But when she started dating Blake, whom she met during a college study-abroad program, she be

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