by Laura | Dec 30, 2024 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
It’s time for my annual childfree trending post! I am calling this year’s theme, ‘sprouting’. Why? We’ve seen some sprouting of good and bad trends this year. Let’s start with the bad. Problematic Sprouting The sprouting of pronatalist discussion grew a bit from...
by Laura | Dec 15, 2023 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Media-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
It’s the time of year to talk childfree trending for 2023! Two big themes that stick out for me this year: Continued Expansion As I have commented in previous childfree trending pieces, the amount of ink, print and digital, on a range of childfree-related topics has...
by Laura | Dec 19, 2022 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
For my annual Childfree Trending piece, this year I want to focus on one of the leading trends I have observed in 2022: a notable increase in childfree people as a collective being referred to as “the childfree movement.” So, for 2022, the fifth year of...
by Laura | Apr 21, 2022 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Interview-Related, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
Davinia Thornley, a colleague of mine, has a book that just came out: Childfree across the Disciplines: Academic & Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children. I had the pleasure of interviewing her about the book: What inspired you to do this collection of...
by Laura | May 7, 2021 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library, Social-Cultural Issues
As we approach Mother’s Day this year in the U.S., I am inspired to quote childfree icon, Gloria Steinem. Her 2016 Facebook post is right on: I’ve been thinking about Mother’s Day, and why I and others, who are not mothers, identify with this day just as much as...
by Laura | Dec 12, 2019 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree Media-Related, Childfree-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
As this year comes to a close, it’s time to talk 2019 childfree trending! I’ve researched and tracked the childfree choice and those who make it for 20 years now, and can say that in the past year, online and everywhere the childfree community has continued to grow....
