If you can overlook the rather cumbersome title, Maxine Trump’s sophomore feature, “To Kid or Not to Kid,” has an appealingly scattered charm. Like the issue it obsesses over — whether or not she should have a child — this deeply personal documentary is messy, emotionally complicated and a magnet for strong opinions.

Those judgments, samples of which we’re shown fulminating online and on television, are often rude and sometimes hateful toward those who have decided to live child-free. To Trump, who has led an itinerant life and fears that children might stifle her dreams, this vindictiveness and stigmatizing is upsetting. Married and in her 40s, she decides it’s time to consciously grapple with the pros and cons of motherhood.