by Laura | Mar 22, 2018 | Man Swarm Related, Population Issues, Pronatalism
With the announcement of the closing of Toys “R” Us, we’ve seen a few articles discussing one particular reason it went bankrupt and out of business: decline in birth rates. Let’s examine this claim. Demographic Time Bomb? In the article, “Toys R Us’s baby problem is...
by Laura | Feb 27, 2018 | Social-Cultural Issues
Pew Research Center recently came out with an interesting report on the numbers of women having children. Based primarily on data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s June Supplement of the Current Population Survey, Pew Research Center collected “completed fertility”...
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 | Oct 4, 2016 | Childfree Media-Related, Childfree-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library, Pronatalism
I was recently contacted by Tatiana Weinstein, Assistant Director/Director of Adult Services in the Lisle, IL Library District, about an August feature article she published in the national magazine, Public Libraries Online. She speaks to her colleagues on an...
by Laura | Apr 13, 2016 | Childfree Research-related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
I recently found historian Rachel Chrastil’s site, Childless, Childfree: News, Research & the Arts. On this site, she “reports on childlessness in the news, research about childlessness, and portrayals of childlessness in the arts–past, present,...