I recently had an exchange with a woman who wrote in response to this month’s On-the-Ground Question: Who has been least accepting of you not wanting kids? She said that she’d have to say her infertile friends. She has wanted kids, has been in the process...
Here’s more from the U.S. Census newly released report, “Fertility of American Women.” Data was collected from three million households in 2008. My last post spoke to data on women with no children. Here are some numbers I found interesting regarding women who...
The U.S. Census released a new report this month, “Fertility of American Women.” It used data collected from American women in 2008. It looks at fertility patterns from a number of different angles, but I want to start with data on women with no children. I’ll do a...
Ms Magazine does a good summary of how pro-choice did in the election. Pro-choice suffered some big losses but there is a twist: First, the big pro-reproductive rights losses: Replacement of pro-choice Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), pro-choice Democratic leadership...
In September I wrote about pro-life women candidates running in the mid term elections. How did they do? On pro-life female Senate candidates… Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell lost to pro-choice Chris Coons in Delaware. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina,...