Post Childfree Discussion on NPRs Tell Me More
I hope you had a listen to the segment, “Not Having Kids Bad for the Economy?” on the NPR show Tell Me More I was part of this week. Host Michel Martin had read the recent piece by Harry Siegel and...
View ArticleA Hot Off the Press Dissertation on Childfree Women
Childfree Psy.D. student, Adi Avivi MS, recently conducted an interesting dissertation project. It examined childfree women’s communication on online platforms. I asked Adi if she would summarize her...
View ArticleRecent Research on Childlessness in Australia
Dr. Bronwyn Harman, psychology and social science professor at Perth’s Edith Cowan University conducted a survey of women with no children in Australia, specifically looking at why they chose not to...
View ArticleOn the Advantages the Childfree Have For Parents & Kids
There remains the popular stereotype that the childfree must not like kids, and because we choose not to raise children we don’t want them to play a role in our lives. This is just not true for so...
View ArticleGrilling the Childfree: What if the Tables Were Turned?
Bringing this post back around – just the other day I got the same bingo as when I posted this before- the bingo related to the assumption that having children means a lack of true meaning in one’s...
View ArticleUsing Humor to Squelch, not Reinforce Childfree Stereotypes
When I first saw the title of Jen Kirkman’s new book, I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids, I sighed. On the upside, I loved the idea that there was a new book out by...
View ArticleWhy Anne Lamott Hates Mother’s Day
Anne Lamott This piece by Anne Lamott that appeared on Salon is now three years old, but still so worth sharing. She explains why Mother’s Day “celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: “I did...
View ArticleChildfree Talk by Women Writers
Add this new book to the growing number of books out there about the childfree choice: No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood. It is a collection of essays edited by Henriette Mantel, a New...
View ArticleOn the Book, No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood
Since attending the book event last week on this book, I finished No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood by writer/actress/director/producer Henriette Mantel. It’s an engaging collection of...
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