by Laura | Oct 14, 2013 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Research-related
Sociology researcher Brian Powell has done some very interesting research about how today’s Americans define family. Results in the book Counted Out examine how men and women of different ages, races, religions, and socioeconomic backgrounds view what...
by Laura | Mar 26, 2013 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related
Dr. Bronwyn Harman, psychology and social science professor at Perth’s Edith Cowan University conducted a survey of women with no children in Australia, specifically looking at why they chose not to have children. Here are highlights of what she found: Her...
by Laura | Mar 13, 2013 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related
Childfree Psy.D. student, Adi Avivi MS, recently conducted an interesting dissertation project. It examined childfree women’s communication on online platforms. I asked Adi if she would summarize her research for us to read here, and she was kind enough to say...
by Laura | Jan 31, 2013 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Let’s broadening the happiness question from my last post to meaning and purpose in life. I began to delve into this earlier in my career, when I had a job counseling people who had been laid off from their jobs. What I learned from this experience became the...
by Laura | Jan 23, 2013 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related, Pronatalism
In the last few years we have seen studies out there asking whether parents are happier than people without children. On January 16, USA Today reported on three more such studies. There’s some bad and good news about these and other studies. Let me explain. A...
by Laura | Jan 17, 2013 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Research-related, Childfree-Related Political issues
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling, and TIME’s recent article, “What Choice? Abortion-rights activists won an epic victory in Roe v Wade. They’ve been losing every since” makes some disturbing...
