by Laura | Sep 22, 2010 | Childfree Psychology-Related
There’s been some ink out there of late on how not having kids is the greenest thing a person can do to help the planet. Less do we read how those who really want to do the green thing deal with also really wanting kids. Writer and ecological advocate Shannon...
by Laura | Sep 19, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree/Parenthood Related
According to latest U.S. Census data, working women who are under thirty and childless are out-earning their male counterparts. Keli Goff, in her Huffpo piece, “Has Mommy-ism Replaced Sexism (And Is That a Bad Thing?)” thinks that this seems to indicate...
by Laura | Sep 16, 2010 | Childfree-Related Political issues
Watching Christine O’Donnell win this the primary in Delaware brought to mind other conservative pro-life women who ran in the primaries, some of whom are now going to be in the mid term elections. But let’s start with O’Donnell. Not only pro...
by Laura | Sep 13, 2010 | Childfree Psychology-Related
Psychology Today has an intriguing article on the topic of introversion. Even in our extrovert-oriented society, national samples suggest that introverts make up about half of the U.S. population –using Carl Jung’s definition of introversion, that is....
by Laura | Sep 10, 2010 | Childfree Issues, Childfree-Related Political issues
I am pleased to see that Australia’s Julia Gillard gained enough to support to form a minority government and remains Australia’s prime minister. Back while she was campaigning she got major flack for being “deliberately barren.” The treatment...
by Laura | Sep 4, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree/Parenthood Related
As I mention in the vlog on the August On-the-Ground question wrap up, I received lots of mail from childfree and parents re the question about how parents can be selfish. Thanks again to all that wrote in — parents and childfree. And double thanks to...
by Laura | Sep 1, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Psychology-Related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
The August question was: Enough about the myth that the childfree are selfish because they don’t have kids. How can parents be selfish? What are signs of a selfish parent? Here is what you said and the tee up to next months...
by Laura | Aug 30, 2010 | Childfree & Religious Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree/Parenthood Related
A visitor to this blog recently commented on the post, “100+ Reasons to Have Children” at Life in a Shoe. I spoke to the 100+ reasons in a recent post, and Leslie copied her comment in the string here. It is a great one that speaks to the childfree...
by Laura | Aug 27, 2010 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Chad Skelton has done another piecein the Curious Dad section of the Vancouver Sun. This time it’s on reasons childfree might be on to something. His reasons re why the childfree might be “right”: 1) there isn’t strong evidence that having...
by Laura | Aug 24, 2010 | Childfree & Religious Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles
Back to the childfree christian channel (thanks again I.Am.Free for her recent interview) — Cha Cha, did a great guest post on feministmormonhousewives.org. She lays out her reasons for not wanting children, which will sound familiar to many childfree. But then...
