by Laura | Mar 1, 2013 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues
Here’s to March as Women’s History Month – As a way to honor it, I invite you to write in one (or more) of your favorite women from history who did not have children. She can be someone who was childless by circumstance or not, or a woman who was...
by Laura | Feb 22, 2013 | Childfree Book-Related, Childfree Issues
I am reading Ashley Judd’s memoir, All That is Bitter & Sweet. I have been a big fan of her acting work, and now learning more about her international humanitarian work – Amazing and inspiring. And she is childfree – Early on in the book she...
by Laura | Feb 14, 2013 | Childfree Issues
Sharon Pian Chan of seattletimes.com recently wrote a piece on how she and her husband arrived at their decision not to have children. Like so many childfree couples, they took the parenthood decision seriously. In her piece, she asks a number of questions that...
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...
