As 2025 winds down, it’s time for my annual Childfree Trending post! I started this in 2016 as a way to look back on a given year. Here are three highlights that stand out for me in 2025. The Pronatalism ‘Movement’ In the last two year’s Childfree Trending...
It’s time for my annual childfree trending post! I am calling this year’s theme, ‘sprouting’. Why? We’ve seen some sprouting of good and bad trends this year. Let’s start with the bad. Problematic Sprouting The sprouting of pronatalist discussion grew a bit from...
It’s the time of year to talk childfree trending for 2023! Two big themes that stick out for me this year: Continued Expansion As I have commented in previous childfree trending pieces, the amount of ink, print and digital, on a range of childfree-related topics has...
Davinia Thornley, a colleague of mine, has a book that just came out: Childfree across the Disciplines: Academic & Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children. I had the pleasure of interviewing her about the book: What inspired you to do this collection of...
Check out my interview with Christine Erickson, the founder of New Legacy Institute (NLI), on Voice America. Christine Erickson She created NLI to: “…address the social and policy inequities faced by those who do not have children, and to put the onus of...
