by Laura | Dec 21, 2018 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
Adding to my end-of-year childfree trending pieces, it’s time to look back at childfree trends for 2018! Connecting Beyond Childfree Talk This past year, I am delighted to have seen a growing number of open and closed online discussion forums popping up with childfree...
by Laura | Dec 15, 2018 | Childfree Lifestyles, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
I like to bring this post back around each year during holiday party time: We’re into the holiday party time of year, and at these kinds of gatherings often people’s kids are a major topic of conversation. When you don’t have kids (yet or are...
by Laura | Dec 10, 2018 | Social-Cultural Issues
Every holiday season, advertisers spend billions of marketing dollars to get us to buy their products and services. At this time of year, advertisers lose revenue because they don’t market to a specific demographic: the 47 percent of American women of childbearing age...
by Laura | Dec 4, 2018 | Childfree Interview-Related, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Media-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
I am thrilled to see the recent rise in documentary films related to the childfree choice. Laura Scott’s film, The Childless by Choice Project led the way in 2010, and Magenta Baribeau’s Maman? Non merci! (No Kids For Me, Thanks!) won a Best Feature Film Award in...
by Laura | Nov 21, 2018 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
I like to bring this post back around as Thanksgiving approaches each year. Check it out: Discussing pronatalism as well as the childfree choice involves the busting of myths. What else has myths that surround it? Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving Myths Vs. Facts...
by Laura | Nov 14, 2018 | Baby Matrix related, Childfree Events, Childfree Media-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
Last weekend I was in New York at DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in the United States! I attended the premiere of the documentary film, To Kid Or Not To Kid by filmmaker Maxine Trump. The film follows Maxine’s personal journey of moving...
by Laura | Oct 24, 2018 | Nonfiction Related, On a Personal Note
I just finished the audible version of The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by associate professor of English at the University of Oxford, Merve Emre. Rather than post a review in my Book Review...
by Laura | Oct 13, 2018 | Childfree Relationship Topics, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
Shani Orgad, Associate Professor in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, has a recent interesting piece on theconversation.com. Titled “’Wifehood’ is not old-fashioned–here’s why it matters,” she discusses what wifehood...
by Laura | Sep 6, 2018 | Childfree Book-Related, Childfree Relationship Topics, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
I am happy to have contributed the chapter, “The Intentionally Childless Marriage,” to the just released book, Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness: The Joys of Otherhood? (2018) published by Emerald Publishing in the UK. “Underpinned by a...
by Laura | Aug 13, 2018 | Childfree Research-related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
Bright Side’s recent piece, “What Childfree People Really Want and Why They Deliberately Refuse to Have Children,” needs some serious cross-checking. Since the late 1990s, I’ve been gathering qualitative data on childfree people and have interviewed and talked with...
