by Laura | Sep 22, 2011 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree/Parenthood Related
How did 21 year old mom Amber Portwood make $140,000 in six months? She had a contract with MTV to be on the reality tv show, Teen Mom. Like other young women on other teen mom reality shows… like Teen Mom 2, and 16 and Pregnant, she is a young mother who became...
by Laura | Sep 19, 2011 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Media-Related, Childfree Research-related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Britain’s Grazia magazine recently conducted a survey of 2,000 women. It planned to coincide the release of the survey numbers with the release of Sarah Jessica Parker’s latest film, I Don’t Know How She Does It. As Grazia puts it, the numbers...
by Laura | Sep 15, 2011 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Earlier this year I posted on some initial findings from recent research conducted by Center for Work Life Policy on the Gen X generation. One area it looked at was the kid factor. Check out some of the findings on this score and how Sylvia Ann Hewlett, the founding...
by Laura | Sep 12, 2011 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles
In addition to today’s trends of the Chinese seeing parenthood as a choice, the recent article on the childfree in China also spoke to how “Dogs are the new bundles of joy for some childless families, giving rise to a new phenomenon known as ding chong,...
by Laura | Sep 8, 2011 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Relationship Topics
Time magazine recently did an interesting article on the latest on married couples’ “chore wars.” The gist: for couples with and without children, there is more of a domestic chore balance than ever before. Why? Research from the Pew Research...
by Laura | Sep 1, 2011 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues
Reporting back on the August On-the-Ground Question–it was: What childfree stereotype have you been subjected to most in your life? Here’s what people said, and a tee up to the September question:
