Do The Childfree Have a Distinct Wanderlust?

by Laura | Aug 22, 2011 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles

Any childfree person should know about sociologist Jean Veevers. She was a pioneer in the study of the childfree, or “voluntary childlessness” as it was called back then. Even in the 70s, she was writing about how the voluntary childless was a...

Are the ‘Childless’ Really More Likely to Divorce?

by Laura | Aug 11, 2011 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Relationship Topics, Childfree Research-related, Childfree/Parenthood Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library

You may have seen more articles popping up lately on how “childless” couples are more likely to divorce.  How it’s treated as a “statistical reality”  needs to be challenged and clarified. Let’s start...

Flashback: Non-Parents Day in 1973

by Laura | Aug 4, 2011 | Childfree Events

Thanks to a savvy source who located a New York Times archived article, I’ve found out how the National Organization for Non-Parents, or NON (which later become the National Alliance for Optional Parenthood, or NAOP) celebrated Non-Parents Day in 1973–and...

Reporting Back Part II: June 2011 On-the-Ground Question

by Laura | Jul 5, 2011 | Childfree Issues

Continuing the report back on the June On-the-Ground question, here is Part 2 of some excerpted highlights of what people said about the childfree person they admire most in their personal lives: Married couple who were my bosses:They were fit, outgoing, successful,...

Rise in Childfree Gen Xers: Challenging a Rationale

by Laura | Jun 20, 2011 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles

Check out some new data on the childfree: a study conducted by the Center for Work-Life Policy of 3000 Gen X men and women indicates that 43% of college educated Gen X women (ages 33-46) are child-free, “despite about three-quarters of them being in “long-term...