I had the pleasure to be interviewed about The Baby Matrix on the author interview site, Literarily Speaking. Also answered some fun personal questions! Here’s the Q&A: Q: Thank you so much for this interview, Laura! Can you tell us where you are from?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
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...
