by Laura | Jan 25, 2018 | Baby Matrix related, Pronatalism, Social-Cultural Issues
In my 2017 childfree trending piece, I discuss how in recent years we’ve been seeing more talk about pronatalism. Some articles use the word directly, some not. An excellent feature article that appeared on money.good.is magazine last fall by Mike Mariani gives us a...
by Laura | Jan 9, 2018 | Baby Matrix related, Book Related - General, Pronatalism, Social-Cultural Issues
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing New Delhi research scholar and activist, Amrita Nandy, about her new book, Motherhood and Choice: Uncommon Mothers, Childfree Women. Check it out: Your new book, Motherhood and Choice, is based on your Ph.D. dissertation....
by Laura | Dec 30, 2017 | On a Personal Note
Wishing You a Wonderful 2018!
by Laura | Dec 27, 2017 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
Now for Part II of childfree trends we have seen this past year. In addition to muddied use of “Childfree,” “Child-free” “Child free “and “Childless” I wrote about in Part I, five more childfree trends are worth noting: Even more stories on being denied sterilization:...
by Laura | Dec 21, 2017 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree Media-Related, Childfree-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
At the beginning of 2016, I took stock of 40+ years of talking about the childfree choice. At the end of 2016, I looked back and discussed positive childfree trends that year. It’s time for childfree trending 2017…this year I’ll do childfree trending in...
by Laura | Dec 1, 2017 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
I have been enjoying Lilli Blackmore’s posts on her site, the American Spinster. Her most recent post, “Why Having Kids Is Not a Retirement Plan” inspires me to riff on this important topic. Please indulge me. The Pronatalist Elderhood Assumption Much of what Lilli...
by Laura | Nov 29, 2017 | Population Issues, Social-Cultural Issues
One particular phrase relating to a study that came out last spring continues to pop up online: moral outrage. The study, “Parenthood as a Moral Imperative? Moral Outrage and the Stigmatization of Voluntarily Childfree Women and Men” has a finding that not having...
by Laura | Nov 2, 2017 | Social-Cultural Issues
A recent study in the Social Psychology Quarterly looks at long-term marriages and has some interesting results to ponder. A summary of findings include: Married women over 50 rate the quality of their marriages lower than their husbands do. In this study, on a...
by Laura | Oct 18, 2017 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Book-Related, Childfree Research-related, Childfree-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
If you follow childfree news, you probably know that not only did filmmakers Maxine Trump and Therese Shechter hit their Kickstarter goals to finish their films about the childfree choice, they surpassed them with Stretch goals. This is exciting news in a number of...
by Laura | Oct 13, 2017 | Childfree Research-related, Childfree-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
The Economist recently published an article titled, “The rise of childlessness.” Full of demographic information, one area I found most interesting involves the charitable childfree and childless. The Charitable Childfree & Childless I call it the charitable...
