by Laura | Jan 12, 2011 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman, parents and creators of the parenting site, babble.com, have an interesting talk on TED about the taboos of parenting. The talk about four parenting taboos: 1) You can’t say you didn’t fall in love with your baby in the...
by Laura | Nov 15, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Research-related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Here’s more from the U.S. Census newly released report, “Fertility of American Women.” Data was collected from three million households in 2008. My last post spoke to data on women with no children. Here are some numbers I found interesting regarding women who...
by Laura | Nov 11, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related
The U.S. Census released a new report this month, “Fertility of American Women.” It used data collected from American women in 2008. It looks at fertility patterns from a number of different angles, but I want to start with data on women with no children. I’ll do a...
by Laura | Oct 25, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree-Related Political issues
In previous posts I’ve lamented about how women political and judicial candidates get criticized for not being mothers–somehow being childfree makes them less qualified. Well, the issue is up again with the current Oklahoma governor’s race....
by Laura | Oct 18, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Maybe you have seen some of the ink out there lately about being fed up with disruptive kids on flights and how to deal with this. One of the more informative pieces came to me from a visitor to this blog (thank you!) and involves a survey done by...
by Laura | Sep 28, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues
Check out this great piece originally posted on the ezine, Unscripted-The Childfree Life, by author Muon. As some of you know, I have taken the domain, and would like to resurrect Unscripted in the future. For now, guess where one of the best places to get sterilized...