by Laura | Oct 20, 2011 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Interview-Related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
My interview with Kristen Grieco Elworthy about her Gloucester-18 documentary has made me think a lot more about intentional teen pregnancy. Unintended teen pregnancy is bad enough; but Kristen’s stat that about 1 in 5 teen pregnancies are intentional is equally...
by Laura | Oct 17, 2011 | Childfree Interview-Related, Childfree Media-Related, Childfree Psychology-Related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Continuing my interview with producer, Kristen Grieco Elworthy on the teen pregnancy story that made international headlines and is now a documentary: Why did those who got pregnant want to get pregnant as a teen? What was my own observation, as a woman about 10 years...
by Laura | Oct 13, 2011 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Interview-Related, Childfree Media-Related, Childfree Psychology-Related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Remember the story in the media about the “pregnancy pact” of the girls in Gloucester, Mass.? Well their story is told in a new documentary, The Gloucester-18. I had the pleasure of talking with its producer, Kristen Grieco Elworthy. Here is Part I of my...
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...
