by Laura | Jan 17, 2013 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Research-related, Childfree-Related Political issues
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...
by Laura | Jan 11, 2013 | Pronatalism
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...
by Laura | Jan 7, 2013 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related
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...
by Laura | Jan 7, 2013 | Pronatalism
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...
by Laura | Dec 31, 2012 | Childfree Issues
I posted this at the end of last year but after the latest poll I took on childfree acceptance, it’s still so relevant: The numbers of childfree may be growing, but awareness and understanding of having no children by choice still has a ways to go. But there...
