In September I wrote about pro-life women candidates running in the mid term elections. How did they do? On pro-life female Senate candidates… Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell lost to pro-choice Chris Coons in Delaware. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina,...
The October On-the-Ground question was: The childfree are often asked “Who will be there for you when you are old if you have no children?” What is your answer? How do you envision your support system in your later years? Here’s a summary of what you...
Postscript to my last two posts that I just have to pass on–thanks to a visitor of this blog who sent me an article by Ruth Marcus, Washington Post columnist on Mary Fallin pulling the mommy card with Jari Askins. Both are running for governor in Oklahoma. I...
More on the governor’s race in Oklahoma with Republican candidate Mary Fallin and Democratic candidate Jari Askins. Fallin has claimed motherhood is what makes her more qualified, and she’s received push back on this. Good Morning America took up the...
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....
I am an avid reader of the editorials in my local San Francisco Chronicle, and was delighted to that this Letter to the Editor appeared today. Bill Kamin of the bay area writes: Not having children is ok Your story about the young Fairfield woman accused of stabbing...
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...
In the November edition in Harper’s Bazaar UK, Renee Zellweger is not only looking great on the cover but she speaks to not wanting kids in her interview. She says that motherhood has never been an “ambition” for her. Think about the use of the word...
At one time I had google ads on my site. It was interesting experimenting with these ads as part of my blogging experience. But it went beyond interesting, really; it started to bug me. Why? Here is an example. In a post I talk about my mixed feelings about someone...
I have to admit that I have mixed reactions when reading about 85 years old professor Robert Edwards at the University of Cambridge receiving the Nobel Prize in medicine. He began work on in vitro fertilization, or IVF in the late 70s, and as the Nobel committee says,...
