by Laura | Jul 6, 2016 | Childfree Events, Childfree-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
by Laura Carroll & Marcia Drut-Davis It’s official – With Marcia Drut-Davis, author of Confessions of a Childfree Woman, in her 70s and me in my 50s, we’re childfree elders. Childfree crones. We’ve been working toward societal acceptance of having no...
by Laura | Jun 15, 2016 | Baby Matrix related, Pronatalism
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of interviewing Kimya Dennis, Assistant Professor at Salem College, who was teaching the sociology course, The Childfree, for the second time and was using my book, The Baby Matrix, as part of the curriculum. As she did last year,...
by Laura | Jan 15, 2016 | Childfree Media-Related, Pronatalism
As 2015 came to a close, it marked another year of talking about the childfree choice Let’s take stock. In the big picture, we’ve seen an ascent of talk about this choice in the public sphere since the 70s. That’s over four decades. Where are we after 40+ years...
by Laura | Oct 6, 2015 | Childfree Events
A first-ever conference is happening this Friday and Saturday: The Not Mom Summit. Spearheaded by Karen Malone Wright who runs the site The Not Mom, it is the first time women without children by choice, chance or circumstance will gather for presentations,...