by Laura | Mar 26, 2013 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related
Dr. Bronwyn Harman, psychology and social science professor at Perth’s Edith Cowan University conducted a survey of women with no children in Australia, specifically looking at why they chose not to have children. Here are highlights of what she found: Her...
by Laura | Mar 21, 2013 | Population Issues
Thank goodness we are seeing smart pieces shooting holes in Jonathan Last’s recent baby bust scares. John Seager, President of Population Connection, does just that in a recent post on sustainablog.org. What does he think of Last’s contention that if we...
by Laura | Mar 14, 2013 | Pronatalism
I’ve written here about pronatalism’s costs to children, including the costs associated with unfit parents. The Atlantic has too, with a recent startling piece by Mia Fontaine on unfit parents when it comes to child sexual abuse. She writes, “People...
by Laura | Mar 13, 2013 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related
Childfree Psy.D. student, Adi Avivi MS, recently conducted an interesting dissertation project. It examined childfree women’s communication on online platforms. I asked Adi if she would summarize her research for us to read here, and she was kind enough to say...
by Laura | Mar 8, 2013 | Childfree Interview-Related, Childfree Media-Related
Please check out the segment, “Not Having Kids Bad for the Economy?” on the NPR show Tell Me More I was part of this week. Host Michel Martin had read the recent piece by Harry Siegel and Joel Kotkin on thedailybeast, “Where Have All the Babies...
by Laura | Mar 1, 2013 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues
Here’s to March as Women’s History Month – As a way to honor it, I invite you to write in one (or more) of your favorite women from history who did not have children. She can be someone who was childless by circumstance or not, or a woman who was...
by Laura | Feb 27, 2013 | Pronatalism
Charles Kenny gives a smart perspective in response to the recent baby bust scares by folks like Jonathan Last and Joel Kotkin- that one negative effect of lower birthrates will be that there will be too many elderly. The title of his article on Bloomberg.com mirrors...
by Laura | Feb 22, 2013 | Childfree Book-Related, Childfree Issues
I am reading Ashley Judd’s memoir, All That is Bitter & Sweet. I have been a big fan of her acting work, and now learning more about her international humanitarian work – Amazing and inspiring. And she is childfree – Early on in the book she...
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 14, 2013 | Childfree Issues
Sharon Pian Chan of seattletimes.com recently wrote a piece on how she and her husband arrived at their decision not to have children. Like so many childfree couples, they took the parenthood decision seriously. In her piece, she asks a number of questions that...
