Families of Two: the childfree a decade later

How being childless by choice and childless “not” by choice has often been differentiated by the latter meaning the woman or couple cannot biologically have children. But not all think so. Take Po Bronson, author of Nutureshock. At his website,he has a section called “Factbook on Family.” One topic area in his “factbook” is childless by choice.  He acknowledges there are increasing numbers of women who are remaining childless, but claims that it’s a myth to say women are choosing to remain childless. He backs this up with three reasons, each of which I have to push back on. His first point: (more…)

Seeing the recent article in Time on debunking the myths of only children, I thought of Bill McKibben who told us all about this and more over ten years ago in his book Maybe One. He talks about how single kid families can work and are necessary to help ensure we not exceed “planet capacity,” or the population that the earth can support.

This idea takes me to the issue of overpopulation. Some experts believe it’s driving many environmental issues and global warming. But other experts don’t agree.  There’s a range of expert positions. Let’s start with a most interesting one. Check out this video of Ted Rosling, Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Definitely worth the watch–

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Continuing my interview with childfree Christian blogger I.Am.Free:

Laura:Many childfree Christians have a hard time reconciling not having kids with their faith–you have. How? 

Quite simply, during my formative years no one ever told me that such a thing was wrong!  I attended church regularly from the time I was born, both of my grandfathers were ministers, my parents read me Bible stories and devotionals before bed every night, I went to a Christian school where I rigorously studied the entire Bible… I was completely immersed in Christianity, and yet I never saw anything in my Bible nor heard anything from the pulpit to convince me that there was something immoral about.. (more…)