A recent Pew Research Center survey with 4581 respondents has interesting results for those with no children: -37% of respondents under 50 years old with no children “say they don’t ever expect to become parents.” -23% of respondents under 50 years old with no...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
