by Laura | May 21, 2014 | On a Personal Note
Have you seen the recently released book, Kid Me Not: An Anthology by Childfree Women of the 60s Now in their 60s. Is that a clever book idea or what. And the life accounts in it give readers a good look into a generation of women making the childfree choice at a...
by Laura | May 16, 2014 | Childfree Book-Related
In author J.O. Raber’s words, Famous – But No Children “is about people who have made an important difference because they were more oriented toward making that difference than toward living the conventional life of rearing children. This is not to say that people...
by Laura | May 13, 2014 | Baby Matrix related, Pronatalism
I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed on The Exchange Show. Host Dan Riley interviews “noteworthy people about their lives, ideas, and current events.” Dan and I talked about how my book Families of Two came to be, an array of childfree topics...
by Laura | May 9, 2014 | Pronatalism
With Mother’s Day around the corner,an insightful piece from 2012 by writer Anne Lamott is sure worth the read. She explains why Mother’s Day “celebrates a huge lie about the value of women”: “I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother’s Day. I...
by Laura | Feb 26, 2014 | Baby Matrix related
Last night I had the pleasure of joining members of the East Bay Childfree-by-Choice Meetup to talk about my book, The Baby Matrix. It was a stimulating discussion, and sparked a great idea to pursue that supports action towards a post-pronatal society. First, a few...