Here we go again. An article on USAToday.com, “Parents are happier than non-parents, studies suggest” talks about two new studies that involve data from thousands of adults around the globe. Here is what researcher Chris Herbst of Arizona State University...
Check out this post on The Childfree Life. What poster “selfishwoman” experienced exemplifies what can happen when people make assumptions, and why some childfree can get criticized for “breeder” talk…. First, here is...
I had the pleasure to be on Minnesota Public Radio this week, along with Bryan Caplan, the author of Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids. The title of The Daily Circuit’s program was, “Is It Immoral to Have Children?” We did not really get to the...
The April childfree On-the-Ground question was: What do you get the most from online childfree communities? And in your opinion, how could the online childfree community improve? Here’s what you said: Moving to May, change is afoot this month… I am going...
On the heels of being interviewed for an upcoming article on the topic of what not to say to childfree friends (and why), I saw this article by blogger Nicole Ciomelc about one of the worst bingoes the childfree and childless in particular can get. It puts a...
One of the challenges the childfree talk about is how not to get defensive when asked by people they don’t know (or don’t know well) why they don’t want kids. Here are my three favorite strategies: First, a question worth asking is why we can feel...
