Q&A With Research Scholar, Amrita Nandy on her Book, Motherhood and Choice

by Laura | Jan 9, 2018 | Baby Matrix related, Book Related - General, Pronatalism, Social-Cultural Issues

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing New Delhi research scholar and activist, Amrita Nandy, about her new book, Motherhood and Choice: Uncommon Mothers, Childfree Women. Check it out: Your new book, Motherhood and Choice, is based on your Ph.D. dissertation....

Looking Back: 2017 Childfree Trending Part II

by Laura | Dec 27, 2017 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library

Now for Part II of childfree trends we have seen this past year. In addition to muddied use of “Childfree,” “Child-free” “Child free “and “Childless” I wrote about in Part I, five more childfree trends are worth noting: Even more stories on being denied sterilization:...

Regretting Motherhood: A Study, by Orna Donath

by Laura | Nov 15, 2017

Israeli sociologist Orna Donath breaks important ground in her book, Regretting Motherhood: A Study. She bravely takes on motherhood regret squarely and directly, and questions “the social order and systems of power that present women with only one possibility: that...

Musings on IVF as an Employee Perk

by Laura | Oct 1, 2017 | Baby Matrix related, Pronatalism

Have you heard that Starbucks is now offering IVF as an employee perk?  A few other companies have started offering an IVF benefit, but Starbucks is going further. As the article, “How Starbucks covers pricey in vitro fertilization for even its part-time employees”...

From Sacrifice to Privilege: Reframing the Role of Motherhood

by Laura | Aug 17, 2017 | Pronatalism, Social-Cultural Issues

The title of the recent opinion piece in the New York Times Sunday Review, “Motherhood Isn’t Sacrifice, It’s Selfishness” sure caught my eye. Was Karen Rinaldi going to get into pronatalism? Sort of… Sacrifice and Glorification Out of the gates, Rinaldi, a mother,...