On the Advantages the Childfree Have For Parents and Kids
There remains the popular stereotype that the childfree must not like kids, and because we choose not to raise children we don’t want them to play a role in our lives. This is just not true for so many people who don’t have kids by choice. As associate professor and sociology department chair at the University of Maine Amy Blackstone writes in her piece, “Childless & Loving It: Not Being a Parent Has Advantages For Families & Kids” the childfree have an “important role to play in the lives of children.” Her interview research lines up with what I have found, starting with the fact that many childfree would say they “enjoy the company of children.”
Studies Dissecting Differences in Happiness and Meaning
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...
We’re More Alike Than We are Different: Book Review on Why Have Kids?
I recently received and want to share this book review for Why Have Kids? by La Vie Childfree follower Gabriela Maya Bernadett. Here it is: As a childfree woman, I was curious to see what the childfree could take away from the recent book, Why Have Kids?: A New Mom...
Stubborn Stigmas Preventing Full Reproductive Freedom
As Election Day approaches, Roe v Wade remains the law of the land, but with a Republican victory and an aging Supreme Court… this law may very well be in jeopardy. As President Barack Obama said on August 8th in Denver, “The next president could tip the...