by Laura | Feb 4, 2010 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles
In interviewing couples for Families of Two, I met couples with a wide array of lifestyles. A few couples had serious goals to change their lifestyle at a certain age, and retire early. One couple –a neonatalogist (doc that works with premature babies) and a...
by Laura | Feb 2, 2010 | Childfree Research-related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
It does not seem fair to just do a post on the biological urge and the ticking clock for women without also including guys…Do men experience any kind of “urge” that is similar to what many women talk about? I went looking for research on this. There is lots of...
by Laura | Jan 30, 2010 | Childfree Interview-Related, Childfree Issues, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud Show did a piece on “As We Are: Childfree.” Tiffany Lee Brown, a writer and artist, was a guest on the show, and told an interesting story about her experience of the biological clock. She decided not to have children...
by Laura | Jan 25, 2010 | Childfree Book-Related, Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Relationship Topics
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the popular Eat Pray Love, has a new book out, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage. Like the couple I wrote about in my last post on Dr. Phil, in Committed Gilbert speaks to her genuine lack of desire to have a child: ” …...
by Laura | Jan 22, 2010 | Childfree Interview-Related, Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Media-Related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Wow — Dr. Phil takes on the many faces of the modern family. In the intro clip he does say “There’s no right or wrong way to have a family.” However, the article on his site gives it a good shot, but does not get to the heart of the...
by Laura | Jan 20, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles
OK still on the Prop 8 trial –I wanted to share this 29 year old woman’s take on the matter. Here is the text of Kristen Quay of Oakland, California in a Letter to the editor in January 18th’s San Francisco Chronicle: “Real threat: unmarried...
by Laura | Jan 18, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Research-related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
The same sex-marriage court case continues to bring out great points that the public needs to be more educated about. On Jan 15, the focus was on the gay/lesbian parent issue. Many of us already know that gay and lesbians make just as good parents as...
by Laura | Jan 16, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree Relationship Topics, Childfree Research-related
While the Supreme Court decided the Prop 8 trial in San Francisco won’t be shown on youtube, as you’d expect it’s sure getting lots of ink. Like childfree blogger Daisy Duke says about what she has heard about gay marriage on the radio recently, some...
by Laura | Jan 14, 2010 | Childfree Issues, Childfree/Parenthood Related
I have received some interesting responses to the current On-the-Ground question: At what age did you decide not to have children? A good deal of respondents indicated they were 20 or younger when they decided, and some shared how they tried to get a tubal ligation...
by Laura | Jan 12, 2010 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Media-Related, Childfree Research-related
I ran across again a couple of articles I saw in summer 2009 that are worth a read if you have not seen them. Macleans Canada ‘s “The Case Against Having Kids” by Anne Kingston discusses childfree issues, trends, and gives some recent stats. What...
