by Laura | May 28, 2012 | Childfree Media-Related
In theme with Memorial Day, USA Today highlighted a new HBO movie, Hemingway & Gellhorn, starring Clive Owen as Hemingway, and Nicole Kidman as Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway’s his third wife. Gellhorn had an amazing life. As Nicole Kidman says, “Her main...
by Laura | Apr 2, 2012 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Media-Related
In part as a nod to Women’s History month, the March On-the-Ground Question was: Who is your favorite childfree woman and why? She can be dead or alive, famous or not, someone you know personally, any childfree woman! Here’s what you said: The April...
by Laura | Mar 6, 2012 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree Media-Related
Have you seen the collage of never-mom women from history (and some still alive) on pinterest? Olivia Reading has done a great job. It’s Women’s History Month, and I find it inspiring! Check it out, and maybe it will inspire your answer to this...
by Laura | Feb 21, 2012 | Childfree & Religious Topics, Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Media-Related, Childfree-Related Political issues
The San Francisco Chronicle had an informative editorial on Obama’s recent contraceptive mandate. Brian Cahill, former executive director of Catholic Charities of San Francisco, thinks that the Obama administration’s “recent compromise” was an...
by Laura | Jan 27, 2012 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree Media-Related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
The San Francisco Chronicle recently had an interesting piece on Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), Sheryl Sandberg. Named Forbes magazine 5th most powerful woman in the world… …and Fortune’s 12th most powerful women in business,...
by Laura | Jan 24, 2012 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Media-Related
A recent article in TIME magazine, “The 1% Birth. Why baby Beyonces are little profit center for hospitals” struck me as an example of the power of pronatalism. Why? Birth is big business…and particularly “luxe” birth. Get this. As the...
