by Laura | Dec 1, 2017 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
I have been enjoying Lilli Blackmore’s posts on her site, the American Spinster. Her most recent post, “Why Having Kids Is Not a Retirement Plan” inspires me to riff on this important topic. Please indulge me. The Pronatalist Elderhood Assumption Much of what Lilli...
by Laura | Nov 29, 2017 | Population Issues, Social-Cultural Issues
One particular phrase relating to a study that came out last spring continues to pop up online: moral outrage. The study, “Parenthood as a Moral Imperative? Moral Outrage and the Stigmatization of Voluntarily Childfree Women and Men” has a finding that not having...
by Laura | Nov 2, 2017 | Social-Cultural Issues
A recent study in the Social Psychology Quarterly looks at long-term marriages and has some interesting results to ponder. A summary of findings include: Married women over 50 rate the quality of their marriages lower than their husbands do. In this study, on a...
by Laura | Oct 18, 2017 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Book-Related, Childfree Research-related, Childfree-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
If you follow childfree news, you probably know that not only did filmmakers Maxine Trump and Therese Shechter hit their Kickstarter goals to finish their films about the childfree choice, they surpassed them with Stretch goals. This is exciting news in a number of...
by Laura | Oct 13, 2017 | Childfree Research-related, Childfree-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
The Economist recently published an article titled, “The rise of childlessness.” Full of demographic information, one area I found most interesting involves the charitable childfree and childless. The Charitable Childfree & Childless I call it the charitable...
