Marriage Defined vs. the Reality

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...

Can a Recession Actually Save Marriages?

by Laura | Dec 26, 2009 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Research-related

Sociologist Philip Cohen doesn’t think the evidence is there. He challenges a part of a study by the National Marriage Project in his post on the Huffington Post, Is the Recession Really Saving Marriages?   Cohen thinks that the report, “The State of Our...

Life Done Differently: One Woman’s Journey on the Road Less Travelled by Lisa Jansen

by Laura | Mar 22, 2024

Review by Jill Kaufman Lisa Jansen’s memoir, Life Done Differently: One Woman’s Journey on the Road Less Travelled, is a telling of her personal conversion from a safe, secure job and life that was successful but unfulfilling, to an unconventional lifestyle,...

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

by Laura | Nov 30, 2023

Review by Nicole Louie Originally published in Korean in 2016 and translated into English in 2020, the cover of the book, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 immediately intrigued me. It has a woman’s head with no facial features and inside it only a desert-like landscape. The...

Looking Back: 2021 Childfree Trending

by Laura | Dec 18, 2021 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Media-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library

It’s time to look back on the year and talk 2021 childfree trending! The Pandemic, Climate Crisis & the Childfree Choice Last year there was growing talk about how the pandemic was causing people to put having children on hold or decide they did not want to have...