On the Advantages the Childfree Have For Parents and Kids
There remains the popular stereotype that the childfree must not like kids, and because we choose not to raise children we don’t want them to play a role in our lives. This is just not true for so many people who don’t have kids by choice. As associate professor and sociology department chair at the University of Maine Amy Blackstone writes in her piece, “Childless & Loving It: Not Being a Parent Has Advantages For Families & Kids” the childfree have an “important role to play in the lives of children.” Her interview research lines up with what I have found, starting with the fact that many childfree would say they “enjoy the company of children.”
Chewing on Poll Results: Acceptance of the Childfree Choice
I’ve been tracking the childfree choice since the late 1990’s, and at the end of 2012 I posted a short poll to take an informal pulse on people’s views of its acceptance in today’s society. Thanks again to all of those who weighed in! Here is what I asked, and a...
More on What to Expect When You’ll Never be Expecting
Since my previous post, I have received a good number of emails asking, “What about the positive things to expect” when you don’t have kids? Good idea! In drafting a post on this, I realized… …people had already weighed in on this earlier...