by Laura | Dec 13, 2011 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Psychology-Related
A city-data forum recently had a thread started by a person who had suddenly lost both of her parents. She ponders regret for not having children in a way had not thought of before, and the 11 pages of comments are worth the read: She starts the thread with this:...
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 | Feb 21, 2011 | Childfree Psychology-Related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Wray Herbert, author of On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind’s Hard-Wired Habits, has an interesting explanation why even though “study after study has shown that parents, compared to adults without kids experience lower emotional well-being, have...
by Laura | Nov 18, 2010 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Psychology-Related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
I recently had an exchange with a woman who wrote in response to this month’s On-the-Ground Question: Who has been least accepting of you not wanting kids? She said that she’d have to say her infertile friends. She has wanted kids, has been in the process...
by Laura | Oct 1, 2010 | Childfree & Religious Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree Psychology-Related, Childfree Relationship Topics, Childfree/Parenthood Related
The September question: Was there ever a time in your adult life when you thought you wanted kids? If so, what changed your mind? Here’s what you said and the tee up to next month’s...
