by Laura | Jun 26, 2012 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Media-Related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
How women can achieve work-life balance and “have it all” remains a hot topic, and some high powered women have lots to say about it. Take Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), Sheryl Sandberg. Named Forbes magazine 5th most powerful woman in the world and...
by Laura | Jun 20, 2012 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles
More and more is out there these days on reasons why people are choosing to have no children. Check out this post is by Hannah, on feministing. Whether she knows it or not, she does some back door demystifying with her reasons. Check it out. Hannah’s reason...
by Laura | Jun 15, 2012 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Media-Related
Slate recently asked to hear from the childfree who are happy, and they have been posting on what they’ve received. “Combing through the nearly 300 submissions”, one of the posts talked about how “a constant refrain jumps out: People with kids...
by Laura | Jun 8, 2012 | Baby Matrix related, Pronatalism
It has been 20 years since the first Earth Summit in Rio, and the next one, the Rio+20 Conference, is about to occur, June 22-24. Government delegates from all over the world will be talking about findings from an analysis done by a group of international scientists...
by Laura | Jun 8, 2012 | Population Issues, Pronatalism
Last post I talked about the pronatal “Right to Reproduce” Assumption in The Baby Matrix. Results of a two year scientific analysis that has just come out leads right to another pronatal Assumption I take on – I call it the “Offspring”...
by Laura | Jun 1, 2012 | Pronatalism
In The Baby Matrix, I talk about about how pronatalism is all around us. Here’s an example that has to do with a woman who is struggling with her uncertainly about becoming a mother. In an article by Nina Jacinto, “Loving So Much It Hurts: Why I’m Not Sure I Can Be a...
by Laura | May 28, 2012 | Childfree Media-Related
In theme with Memorial Day, USA Today highlighted a new HBO movie, Hemingway & Gellhorn, starring Clive Owen as Hemingway, and Nicole Kidman as Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway’s his third wife. Gellhorn had an amazing life. As Nicole Kidman says, “Her main...
by Laura | May 22, 2012 | Baby Matrix related
My previous book, Families of Two: Interviews With Happily Married Couples Without Children by Choice, received international attention and paved the way for me to become an expert on the childfree choice. In the last several years, I have delved deeper. At first, I...
by Laura | May 18, 2012 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Relationship Topics
In my interview for an article in womansday on what not to say to the childfree, writer Charlotte Lavala asked me about “cringe-worthy” things women can say to their childfree woman friends. I gave her a boatload of ideas, and a couple landed in the...
by Laura | May 14, 2012 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree/Parenthood Related
In the book, 30 Lessons For Living:Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans, author Karl Pillemer tells us what he learned from surveys and interviews of over 1500 of elder Americans, 65 and older. He calls them our “experts.” He ends with a section...
