Families of Two: Interviews With Happily Married Couples Without Children by Choice

by Lisa-Marie | Jun 23, 2014

Families of Two: Interviews with Happily Married Couples Without Children by Choice, (2000)  takes us into the lives of the growing number of couples who are choosing not to have children, and dispels the myths commonly associated with this choice. Families of...

Baby Steps: To Have Kids or Not Have Kids, That is the Question

by Laura | Apr 1, 2014

Last year a lovely woman named Mara Altman contacted me and asked if I would be willing to talk with her about my book, The Baby Matrix. She is a freelance writer, and has published best-selling Kindle Singles. One of them, Thanks for Coming, “follows her on an...

No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood

by Laura | Jun 3, 2013

No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood by writer/actress/director/producer Henriette Mantel is an engaging collection of essays by her and 36 women writer friends who don’t have children. The honest and forthright stories by baby boomer women…...

Pride and Joy: The Lives and Passions of Women Without Children

by Laura | Oct 25, 2011

Terri Casey’s book intentionally steps out to reclaim the phrase “pride and joy”—typically used to describe a woman’s children—as equally valid in describing a childfree woman’s many other possible contributions to the world. While other...

Complete Without Kids

by Laura | Sep 19, 2011

My quote from the book’s back cover sums up this book:  Psychologist Ellen Walker combines insightful memoir, engaging stories from real people without children, with informative discussion and provocative self-reflected questions to help… …childfree...