by Laura | Jul 23, 2018 | Childfree Events, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
The nominations for the 2018 Childfree Person of the Year and Childfree Group of the Year have gone to the Selection Panel. Winners will be announced on August 1, International Childfree Day! Meanwhile, want to know about past winners? Check them out...
by Laura | Jun 25, 2018 | Childfree Events, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
Let the 2018 nominations begin for the Childfree Person of the Year and Childfree Group of the Year! The winners will be announced on August 1, International Childfree Day. Here is some background on how this started. NON Several years ago, I learned of an...
by Laura | May 12, 2018 | Childfree Relationship Topics, Childfree-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
I love how in recent years as Mother’s Day approaches we’ve been seeing more writings that question the maternal instinct. As one example, take the National Geographic article that just came out titled, “Is Maternal Instinct Only for Moms? Here’s the Science,”...
by Laura | Apr 12, 2018 | Childfree Relationship Topics, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
As Vicki Larson, author of The New “I Do”, was reading Avivah Wittenberg-Cox’s Late Love: Mating in Maturity, she noticed that when the author talks about her “gray divorce” – her divorce after 22 years of marriage, “one thing kept...
by Laura | Mar 28, 2018 | Childfree Issues, Childfree/Parenthood Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
Reading “Let’s hear it for the single, childless women: We get tired too,” by Mika Sarmiento got me thinking, especially when she writes about a “specific kind of guilt that comes with talking about sleepless nights and long days with said great wives and mothers.”...
by Laura | Mar 6, 2018 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related, Childfree-Related
I sure like seeing more pieces out there these days on childfree sterilization in popular women’s publications. A recent piece in SELF on this topic deserves mention. After Deputy Editor Nina Bahadur relays a few women’s frustrating experiences and...
