by Laura | Apr 13, 2010 | Baby Matrix related, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Media-Related
Journalist Laura Stepp has an interesting piece on teen pregnancy on The Huffington Post. The good news: teen pregnancy is down. The bad news: disturbing stats that don’t jive with this reduction. In late 2009, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and...
by Laura | Apr 7, 2010 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles
What a great piece by Lisa Hymas on grist.com. When it comes to being childfree, she calls herself a GINK: green inclinations, no kids. May it replace the term that’s been out there for awhile– DINK: double income no kids. About 10 years ago, DINK was...
by Laura | Apr 4, 2010 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related
Thanks to all who wrote in their thoughts regarding the March On-the-Ground (OTG) question, “How are the childfree most misunderstood?” Most comments revolved around…… the myths that the decision to be childfree is selfish, and that it must mean we don’t...
by Laura | Apr 1, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Research-related
The upper parliament in India passed a remarkable and historic bill recently—1/3 of all legislative seats need to be filled by women. The world’s largest democracy, it guarantees seats for women in the national legislature and state assemblies. The bill still needs to...
by Laura | Mar 29, 2010 | Childfree & Religious Topics, Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Psychology-Related
Some research suggests that the childfree tend not to be religious people (I have seen lots who are however)–When it comes to the recent pedophilia scandal in the Catholic church I can see why..I’ve been an “ex-Catholic” for years. Among many...
by Laura | Mar 26, 2010 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Relationship Topics
Anna Carey wrote a great piece in the Irish Independent about “PANKs” – Professional Aunts No Kids. No more is the image of childless aunties as “fussy ol ladies” — we’re a happening bunch that play an important role in children’s...
by Laura | Mar 23, 2010 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Psychology-Related
Reading an Australian childless by choice article I ran across something for the first time. Sexologist and associate professor of health psychology at James Cook University, Dr Frances Quirk thinks a reason many of us don’t feel our raison d’être is to pump out...
by Laura | Mar 20, 2010 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Staying on the gender identity channel from the last post–I ran across an article in the San Francisco Chronicle from 2006–“Off the Mommy Track” by Elisa Gonzalez Clark. In talking about her decision not to have kids, she writes, “If I...
by Laura | Mar 18, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Interview-Related, Childfree Issues
In the fall of 2007, two 23 year olds, Emma Bernstein and Nona Willis Aronowitz set out on a road trip across the U.S. to ask 20 somethings what feminism means to them. They interviewed about 250 women in 25 cities, and their story is told in the new book, Girldrive:...
by Laura | Mar 13, 2010 | Childfree Psychology-Related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Mailonline has an interesting article by Lucy Cavendish, “I love my kids, but I admit it-I’m happier on my own!” She talks about how she loves her kids but has to admit her moments of “genuine bliss” do not revolve around being a mother....
