As 2025 winds down, it’s time for my annual Childfree Trending post! I started this in 2016 as a way to look back on a given year. Here are three highlights that stand out for me in 2025. The Pronatalism ‘Movement’ In the last two year’s Childfree Trending...
It’s time for my annual childfree trending post! I am calling this year’s theme, ‘sprouting’. Why? We’ve seen some sprouting of good and bad trends this year. Let’s start with the bad. Problematic Sprouting The sprouting of pronatalist discussion grew a bit from...
It’s the time of year to talk childfree trending for 2023! Two big themes that stick out for me this year: Continued Expansion As I have commented in previous childfree trending pieces, the amount of ink, print and digital, on a range of childfree-related topics has...
For my annual Childfree Trending piece, this year I want to focus on one of the leading trends I have observed in 2022: a notable increase in childfree people as a collective being referred to as “the childfree movement.” So, for 2022, the fifth year of...
Davinia Thornley, a colleague of mine, has a book that just came out: Childfree across the Disciplines: Academic & Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children. I had the pleasure of interviewing her about the book: What inspired you to do this collection of...
As we approach Mother’s Day this year in the U.S., I am inspired to quote childfree icon, Gloria Steinem. Her 2016 Facebook post is right on: I’ve been thinking about Mother’s Day, and why I and others, who are not mothers, identify with this day just as much as...
