In May, The Washington Post did a piece about the growing number of young families to in urban areas such as Washington D.C., Boston and New York, and the growing resentment over having to accommodate them in public places. It drew hundreds of comments, and according...
According to latest U.S. Census data, working women who are under thirty and childless are out-earning their male counterparts. Keli Goff, in her Huffpo piece, “Has Mommy-ism Replaced Sexism (And Is That a Bad Thing?)” thinks that this seems to indicate...
As I mention in the vlog on the August On-the-Ground question wrap up, I received lots of mail from childfree and parents re the question about how parents can be selfish. Thanks again to all that wrote in — parents and childfree. And double thanks to...
The August question was: Enough about the myth that the childfree are selfish because they don’t have kids. How can parents be selfish? What are signs of a selfish parent? Here is what you said and the tee up to next months...
A visitor to this blog recently commented on the post, “100+ Reasons to Have Children” at Life in a Shoe. I spoke to the 100+ reasons in a recent post, and Leslie copied her comment in the string here. It is a great one that speaks to the childfree...
Chad Skelton has done another piecein the Curious Dad section of the Vancouver Sun. This time it’s on reasons childfree might be on to something. His reasons re why the childfree might be “right”: 1) there isn’t strong evidence that having...