I have no children and have started to fear for my legacy. What can I do?
05-05-2024 07:00 via theguardian.com

I have no children and have started to fear for my legacy. What can I do?

Legacy can be found in the lives you touch and your impact on othersThe question I am a 54-year-old woman with a good career and a stable marriage. I live across the globe from my parents, my siblings and their kids and I am child-free. I have reduced contact with them to brief and polite birthday and Christmas messages, which they respond to, but we have no relationship or ongoing contact as such. It is close to estrangement, and I have no desire to try to repair this. I am child-free because I
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