by Laura | Mar 26, 2010 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Relationship Topics
Anna Carey wrote a great piece in the Irish Independent about “PANKs” – Professional Aunts No Kids. No more is the image of childless aunties as “fussy ol ladies” — we’re a happening bunch that play an important role in children’s...
by Laura | Mar 23, 2010 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Psychology-Related
Reading an Australian childless by choice article I ran across something for the first time. Sexologist and associate professor of health psychology at James Cook University, Dr Frances Quirk thinks a reason many of us don’t feel our raison d’être is to pump out...
by Laura | Mar 20, 2010 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Staying on the gender identity channel from the last post–I ran across an article in the San Francisco Chronicle from 2006–“Off the Mommy Track” by Elisa Gonzalez Clark. In talking about her decision not to have kids, she writes, “If I...
by Laura | Mar 18, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Interview-Related, Childfree Issues
In the fall of 2007, two 23 year olds, Emma Bernstein and Nona Willis Aronowitz set out on a road trip across the U.S. to ask 20 somethings what feminism means to them. They interviewed about 250 women in 25 cities, and their story is told in the new book, Girldrive:...
by Laura | Mar 13, 2010 | Childfree Psychology-Related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Mailonline has an interesting article by Lucy Cavendish, “I love my kids, but I admit it-I’m happier on my own!” She talks about how she loves her kids but has to admit her moments of “genuine bliss” do not revolve around being a mother....
by Laura | Mar 10, 2010 | Childfree & Religious Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Katherine English wrote an interesting post, “Free to be Childfree” on Café-Stirring the Spirit Within. It asks questions childfree Christians often struggle with. She writes that “it seems that there is instruction in many parts of the bible to be ‘fruitful and...
