Where Are We, After 40+ Years of Talking About the Childfree Choice?

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...

Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed

by Laura | Mar 31, 2015

As someone who has been tracking the childfree choice since the late 1990s, when new books on this topic come out I read them with great interest. One of the latest is writer Meghan Daum’s Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision NOT...

Confessions of a Childfree Woman by Marcia Drut-Davis

by Lisa-Marie | Jun 23, 2014

Confessions of a Childfree Woman fills a needed niche of nonfiction writings on having no children by choice. Marcia Drut-Davis’ memoir gives us an up close and personal story from who we don’t hear enough from in the childfree community – the elder childfree. With...

Baby Steps: To Have Kids or Not Have Kids, That is the Question

by Laura | Apr 1, 2014

Last year a lovely woman named Mara Altman contacted me and asked if I would be willing to talk with her about my book, The Baby Matrix. She is a freelance writer, and has published best-selling Kindle Singles. One of them, Thanks for Coming, “follows her on an...

Rockin the Life Unexpected

by Laura | Mar 14, 2014

I’m working on my 2014 reading list! Since the release of my book Families of Two over a decade ago, I have talked with thousands of childfree people. I have also talked with many others who are in the midst of the parenthood decision, and those who are...