by Laura | Feb 21, 2013 | Pronatalism
From my previous post on Huffpo, the recent ink out there are why we need to really be concerned about falling birthrates got me going! Like Jonathan Last’s piece in the Wall Street Journal online, “America’s Baby Bust” and his recent flurry...
by Laura | Feb 8, 2013 | Pronatalism
After seeing Jonathan Last in the media this week talking about his new book, What to Expect When No One is Expecting, the childfree will likely not be swayed by his reasons why we need to have to more babies to sustain our economic success. But if you run across...
by Laura | Jan 30, 2013 | Pronatalism
In a recent article by Ashley Lauren at care2.com she asks, “Why Aren’t People Adopting?” She goes through some reasons that deserve further elaboration…. The first has to do with cost. Lauren writes that the cost of adoption “is...
by Laura | Jan 23, 2013 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related, Pronatalism
In the last few years we have seen studies out there asking whether parents are happier than people without children. On January 16, USA Today reported on three more such studies. There’s some bad and good news about these and other studies. Let me explain. A...
by Laura | Jan 11, 2013 | Pronatalism
There is an increasing amount of talk out there about how the childfree face inequities when it comes to tax and workplace policies. It exists in the halls of academia as well. Here is an example – this story from a graduate student blew me away. *Names and...
by Laura | Jan 7, 2013 | Pronatalism
Christine Overall, a philosophy professor at Queen’s University, Ontario, has a book out called Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate. In an interview on WBEZ, she talked about why she wrote this book – because it’s something people just don’t talk...
