by Laura | Oct 1, 2013 | Baby Matrix related
The recent spread, “Outsourcing a Life” in the San Francisco Chronicle on one couple’s experience with Indian surrogacy begs for revisiting and adding to a La Vie Childfree discussion from about a year ago. Romney’s son and his wife have done...
by Laura | Jun 11, 2013 | Baby Matrix related, Pronatalism
Journalist and author Lauren Sandler (pictured) recently interviewed me about pronatalism and The Baby Matrix. Today her book, One & Only came out. We talked a lot about the pronatalist myths that the childfree and those with one child have in common—the biggest?...
by Laura | Apr 5, 2013 | Baby Matrix related, Pronatalism
With the Supreme Court taking on same-sex marriage (or will they-we shall see), marriage traditionalists have been out there touting the old notion that the purpose of marriage is ultimately about procreation. Old, indeed. And just no longer true. Even marriage...
by Laura | Feb 6, 2013 | Baby Matrix related
Great reviews for The Baby Matrix continue to come in! Here’s a few more. If you have read it, don’t be shy-share your reader review as well! … “this was a fascinating book… As a woman in her mid-30’s who is still on the fence about motherhood, it was nice...
by Laura | Dec 1, 2012 | Baby Matrix related, Pronatalism
In his recent op-ed in The New York Times, political and cultural commentator David Brooks writes we’re in an “age of possibility” – one in which more people are “intolerant of any arrangement that might close off their personal options” and go “through adulthood...
by Laura | Nov 26, 2012 | Baby Matrix related
I want to share this review of The Baby Matrix by Katherine, at The Childfree Life, “a gathering place for people who share the common bond of choosing to be non-parents, and for those in the process of making that decision.” “Laura Carroll in her...
