A recent article in TIME magazine, “The 1% Birth. Why baby Beyonces are little profit center for hospitals” struck me as an example of the power of pronatalism. Why? Birth is big business…and particularly “luxe” birth. Get this. As the...
Reading “The Grief of Childlessness” by Samantha Schoech got me thinking about how we’ve come to commonly define “childless “and “childless by circumstance.” Who are the childless? Typically we are talking about those who...
I am on a road trip down the California coast, and one of the towns I visited for the first time in years is worthy of mention as a place you’re not likely to share your visit with many kids… Carmel. What a charming little town, and one of the best little...
Last year Grist did a piece on why the childfree had finally gone mainstream. I had to disagree. While this choice is talked about more than ever before, it’s not hit mainstream acceptance by a long shot. One big reason? Religion. This “Happily...
Check out some stats in the January 9th edition of Time Magazine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CIA World Fact Book, Demographic Intelligence, Pew Research, SSA, U.N., the U.S. Census and others…. 4 million babies will be born in the U.S....
