I'm an only child who was raised by my grandmother. My childhood was lonely, but I'm still choosing to be child-free.

• 04/13/2024, 5:23 PM
• businessinsider.com

Courtesy Marissa Higgins

I´m in my 30s, but I joke that I´ve been a grandma since birth. I'm an only child, and my grandmother raised me while my parents were out of the picture. I grew up in a sleepy town built around fishermen and summer tourists. My grandmother's house was on a peninsula, a seven-mile stretch of the Atlantic on the south shore of Massachusetts.