by Laura | Nov 14, 2018 | Baby Matrix related, Childfree Events, Childfree Media-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
Last weekend I was in New York at DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in the United States! I attended the premiere of the documentary film, To Kid Or Not To Kid by filmmaker Maxine Trump. The film follows Maxine’s personal journey of moving...
by Laura | Oct 24, 2018 | Nonfiction Related, On a Personal Note
I just finished the audible version of The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by associate professor of English at the University of Oxford, Merve Emre. Rather than post a review in my Book Review...
by Laura | Oct 13, 2018 | Childfree Relationship Topics, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
Shani Orgad, Associate Professor in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, has a recent interesting piece on theconversation.com. Titled “’Wifehood’ is not old-fashioned–here’s why it matters,” she discusses what wifehood...
by Laura | Sep 6, 2018 | Childfree Book-Related, Childfree Relationship Topics, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
I am happy to have contributed the chapter, “The Intentionally Childless Marriage,” to the just released book, Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness: The Joys of Otherhood? (2018) published by Emerald Publishing in the UK. “Underpinned by a...
by Laura | Aug 13, 2018 | Childfree Research-related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
Bright Side’s recent piece, “What Childfree People Really Want and Why They Deliberately Refuse to Have Children,” needs some serious cross-checking. Since the late 1990s, I’ve been gathering qualitative data on childfree people and have interviewed and talked with...
