There is a lot out there on the gender equality issue in politics and business, including the issue that there aren’t enough women, moms or not, in high level positions. Headline Italy—it seems the sex scandal with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has inspired a move...
Match.com recently funded a study of what TIME magazine says might “be the biggest study of single people ever.” They may have paid for it, but Helen Fisher at Rutgers University, Stephanie Coontz at Binghamton University and an independent company...
Seeing how it is Women’s History month, let’s give a nod to some awesome childfree women of history. Starting with the subject of Molley Peacock’s most recent biography of artist Mary Delaney, others include: Amelia Earhart, Annie Sullivan , Karen...
Last month’s On-the-Ground question was: What stories/wisdom do you have about finding childfree people to date? Check out what people said: Here is the March question: Think across all kinds of media – television, film, print and digital, even radio-...
I recently asked childfree author Molly Peacock if she would answer few questions about her writing she’d be willing to share here. Thankfully she agreed! She is a poet, and author of a memoir and an upcoming biography of an amazing woman from the 18th...
Wray Herbert, author of On Second Thought: Outsmarting Your Mind’s Hard-Wired Habits, has an interesting explanation why even though “study after study has shown that parents, compared to adults without kids experience lower emotional well-being, have...
A recent editorial by Jeremy Adam Smith, author of the Daddy Shift makes a great case for how paid family leave is not only good for business, but is “good for guys and their marriages.” A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research...
Thanks to all who have written in so far on this month’s On-the-Ground question about their experience with childfree dating. Some great stories and unique ideas coming in~keep ’em coming–Will report back at the end of the month! One idea relates to...
I recently attended a “celebration of life” service for my friend Paula’s partner. Paula is my 70+ year old childfree friend I met through our mutual interest in art deco. She has very little family, and have to admit I wondered now that the love of...
The January question: What childfree and related topics would you like to learn more about and discuss on this blog in 2011? Check out what people said: The February question: Childfree dating: What stories and wisdom do you have about finding childfree...
