Sharon Pian Chan of seattletimes.com recently wrote a piece on how she and her husband arrived at their decision not to have children. Like so many childfree couples, they took the parenthood decision seriously. In her piece, she asks a number of questions that...
After seeing Jonathan Last in the media this week talking about his new book, What to Expect When No One is Expecting, the childfree will likely not be swayed by his reasons why we need to have to more babies to sustain our economic success. But if you run across...
Great reviews for The Baby Matrix continue to come in! Here’s a few more. If you have read it, don’t be shy-share your reader review as well! … “this was a fascinating book… As a woman in her mid-30’s who is still on the fence about motherhood, it was nice...
Let’s broadening the happiness question from my last post to meaning and purpose in life. I began to delve into this earlier in my career, when I had a job counseling people who had been laid off from their jobs. What I learned from this experience became the...
In a recent article by Ashley Lauren at care2.com she asks, “Why Aren’t People Adopting?” She goes through some reasons that deserve further elaboration…. The first has to do with cost. Lauren writes that the cost of adoption “is...
