Since my previous post, I have received a good number of emails asking, “What about the positive things to expect” when you don’t have kids? Good idea! In drafting a post on this, I realized… …people had already weighed in on this earlier...
Julia McQuillan, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist, recently conducted a survey of 1,200 American women, looking at the pressures they get to have children and the levels of distress they experience from not having children. The survey’s findings...
The October issue of Women’s Health Magazine has an article by Carrie Anton that takes a clever angle on what to expect from others in reaction to the childfree choice. It’s titled, “What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting.” I’d...
Every year, Worldwatch Institute, a non-profit research and outreach organization working to “to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world that meets human needs” puts out a State of the World report. This year’s report is titled Moving Toward...
When it comes to how not wanting kids is seen in our society, we’ve come a long way from just a decade ago. At that time, there were some scholarly studies on “voluntary childlessness,” a few books out on the topic, and rarely did we see it covered...
