by Laura | Mar 14, 2013 | Pronatalism
I’ve written here about pronatalism’s costs to children, including the costs associated with unfit parents. The Atlantic has too, with a recent startling piece by Mia Fontaine on unfit parents when it comes to child sexual abuse. She writes, “People...
by Laura | Mar 13, 2013 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related
Childfree Psy.D. student, Adi Avivi MS, recently conducted an interesting dissertation project. It examined childfree women’s communication on online platforms. I asked Adi if she would summarize her research for us to read here, and she was kind enough to say...
by Laura | Mar 8, 2013 | Childfree Interview-Related, Childfree Media-Related
Please check out the segment, “Not Having Kids Bad for the Economy?” on the NPR show Tell Me More I was part of this week. Host Michel Martin had read the recent piece by Harry Siegel and Joel Kotkin on thedailybeast, “Where Have All the Babies...
by Laura | Mar 1, 2013 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues
Here’s to March as Women’s History Month – As a way to honor it, I invite you to write in one (or more) of your favorite women from history who did not have children. She can be someone who was childless by circumstance or not, or a woman who was...
by Laura | Feb 27, 2013 | Pronatalism
Charles Kenny gives a smart perspective in response to the recent baby bust scares by folks like Jonathan Last and Joel Kotkin- that one negative effect of lower birthrates will be that there will be too many elderly. The title of his article on Bloomberg.com mirrors...
