by Laura | Dec 11, 2012 | Pronatalism
Danish researchers recently did a study on mortality rates of those with and without children. What did they find? As The Atlantic article indicates, that “While unable to prove causation, the authors concluded that mortality rates are higher in people who...
by Laura | Dec 1, 2012 | Baby Matrix related, Pronatalism
In his recent op-ed in The New York Times, political and cultural commentator David Brooks writes we’re in an “age of possibility” – one in which more people are “intolerant of any arrangement that might close off their personal options” and go “through adulthood...
by Laura | Nov 7, 2012 | Pronatalism
Prior to The Baby Matrix, there are two other books worthy of mention that take on pronatalism. One is Conceiving the Future. It looks at how, during a formative period of our nation’s history, cultural currents converged to create a powerful environment of...
by Laura | Oct 9, 2012 | Pronatalism
Julia McQuillan, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist, recently conducted a survey of 1,200 American women, looking at the pressures they get to have children and the levels of distress they experience from not having children. The survey’s findings...
by Laura | Sep 26, 2012 | Baby Matrix related, Childfree Issues, Pronatalism
When it comes to how not wanting kids is seen in our society, we’ve come a long way from just a decade ago. At that time, there were some scholarly studies on “voluntary childlessness,” a few books out on the topic, and rarely did we see it covered...
by Laura | Sep 5, 2012 | Pronatalism
What kind of story do we see in the news just about every day? Incidents of child abuse. When it comes to child abuse, the statistics in the United States are unnerving. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, in the United States a child is abused...
