by Laura | Apr 17, 2011 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Bryan Caplan, author of Selfish Reasons to Have Kids, may think that because parenting can be easier than you think so you shouldn’t hesitate to keep having more kids, but is more necessarily better when it comes to creating the “perfect” family?...
by Laura | Jan 15, 2011 | Childfree Interview-Related, Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles
I recently reconnected with Erin and Jeff, one of the couples interviewed in Families of Two. They also appeared on The Early Show with me. At the time Families of Two came out, they had been married for 12 years–so now 22. They are both teachers. I asked them a...
by Laura | Nov 7, 2012 | Pronatalism
Prior to The Baby Matrix, there are two other books worthy of mention that take on pronatalism. One is Conceiving the Future. It looks at how, during a formative period of our nation’s history, cultural currents converged to create a powerful environment of...
by Laura | Jul 10, 2012 | Baby Matrix related
Here is a recent interview that appeared on the online magazine, Blogcritics Books, WorldNews Network and Seattlepi. I talk about The Baby Matrix of course, and I answer some interesting questions about unsung authors, who I’d love to interview, and things...
by Laura | Aug 16, 2024 | Childfree Research-related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
Pew Research Center’s recent study on people who don’t have children gives us an informative multidimensional survey of “2,542 adults ages 50 and older who have never had children and 770 adults ages 18 to 49 who don’t have children and say they are not too or not at...