by Laura | Jan 12, 2011 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman, parents and creators of the parenting site, babble.com, have an interesting talk on TED about the taboos of parenting. The talk about four parenting taboos: 1) You can’t say you didn’t fall in love with your baby in the...
by Laura | Oct 11, 2010 | Childfree Interview-Related, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Media-Related
In the November edition in Harper’s Bazaar UK, Renee Zellweger is not only looking great on the cover but she speaks to not wanting kids in her interview. She says that motherhood has never been an “ambition” for her. Think about the use of the word...
by Laura | Oct 5, 2010 | Population Issues, Pronatalism
I have to admit that I have mixed reactions when reading about 85 years old professor Robert Edwards at the University of Cambridge receiving the Nobel Prize in medicine. He began work on in vitro fertilization, or IVF in the late 70s, and as the Nobel committee says,...
by Laura | Sep 22, 2010 | Childfree Psychology-Related
There’s been some ink out there of late on how not having kids is the greenest thing a person can do to help the planet. Less do we read how those who really want to do the green thing deal with also really wanting kids. Writer and ecological advocate Shannon...
by Laura | Sep 19, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree/Parenthood Related
According to latest U.S. Census data, working women who are under thirty and childless are out-earning their male counterparts. Keli Goff, in her Huffpo piece, “Has Mommy-ism Replaced Sexism (And Is That a Bad Thing?)” thinks that this seems to indicate...
