In the last few years we have seen studies out there asking whether parents are happier than people without children. On January 16, USA Today reported on three more such studies. There’s some bad and good news about these and other studies. Let me explain. A...
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling, and TIME’s recent article, “What Choice? Abortion-rights activists won an epic victory in Roe v Wade. They’ve been losing every since” makes some disturbing...
There is an increasing amount of talk out there about how the childfree face inequities when it comes to tax and workplace policies. It exists in the halls of academia as well. Here is an example – this story from a graduate student blew me away. *Names and...
I’ve been tracking the childfree choice since the late 1990’s, and at the end of 2012 I posted a short poll to take an informal pulse on people’s views of its acceptance in today’s society. Thanks again to all of those who weighed in! Here is what I asked, and a...
Christine Overall, a philosophy professor at Queen’s University, Ontario, has a book out called Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate. In an interview on WBEZ, she talked about why she wrote this book – because it’s something people just don’t talk...
