by Laura | Mar 8, 2013 | Childfree Interview-Related, Childfree Media-Related
Please check out the segment, “Not Having Kids Bad for the Economy?” on the NPR show Tell Me More I was part of this week. Host Michel Martin had read the recent piece by Harry Siegel and Joel Kotkin on thedailybeast, “Where Have All the Babies...
by Laura | Feb 21, 2013 | Pronatalism
From my previous post on Huffpo, the recent ink out there are why we need to really be concerned about falling birthrates got me going! Like Jonathan Last’s piece in the Wall Street Journal online, “America’s Baby Bust” and his recent flurry...
by Laura | Feb 6, 2013 | Baby Matrix related
Great reviews for The Baby Matrix continue to come in! Here’s a few more. If you have read it, don’t be shy-share your reader review as well! … “this was a fascinating book… As a woman in her mid-30’s who is still on the fence about motherhood, it was nice...
by Laura | Jan 23, 2013 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related, Pronatalism
In the last few years we have seen studies out there asking whether parents are happier than people without children. On January 16, USA Today reported on three more such studies. There’s some bad and good news about these and other studies. Let me explain. A...
by Laura | Jan 11, 2013 | Pronatalism
There is an increasing amount of talk out there about how the childfree face inequities when it comes to tax and workplace policies. It exists in the halls of academia as well. Here is an example – this story from a graduate student blew me away. *Names and...
