by Laura | May 12, 2018 | Childfree Relationship Topics, Childfree-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
I love how in recent years as Mother’s Day approaches we’ve been seeing more writings that question the maternal instinct. As one example, take the National Geographic article that just came out titled, “Is Maternal Instinct Only for Moms? Here’s the Science,”...
by Laura | May 1, 2018 | Pronatalism, Workplace Issues
The recent article, “How Managers Can Be Fair About Flexibility for Parents and Non-Parents Alike,” by Joan C. Williams and Marina Multhaup takes on two topics more commonly written about separately: how parents and non-parents face bias at work. Both Camps Experience...
by Laura | Apr 12, 2018 | Childfree Relationship Topics, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
As Vicki Larson, author of The New “I Do”, was reading Avivah Wittenberg-Cox’s Late Love: Mating in Maturity, she noticed that when the author talks about her “gray divorce” – her divorce after 22 years of marriage, “one thing kept...
by Laura | Mar 28, 2018 | Childfree Issues, Childfree/Parenthood Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
Reading “Let’s hear it for the single, childless women: We get tired too,” by Mika Sarmiento got me thinking, especially when she writes about a “specific kind of guilt that comes with talking about sleepless nights and long days with said great wives and mothers.”...
by Laura | Mar 22, 2018 | Man Swarm Related, Population Issues, Pronatalism
With the announcement of the closing of Toys “R” Us, we’ve seen a few articles discussing one particular reason it went bankrupt and out of business: decline in birth rates. Let’s examine this claim. Demographic Time Bomb? In the article, “Toys R Us’s baby problem is...
