by Laura | Oct 1, 2013 | Baby Matrix related
The recent spread, “Outsourcing a Life” in the San Francisco Chronicle on one couple’s experience with Indian surrogacy begs for revisiting and adding to a La Vie Childfree discussion from about a year ago. Romney’s son and his wife have done...
by Laura | Sep 16, 2013 | Childfree Book-Related
Author Kaye Walters has done something no other writer in the childfree genre has – she has conducted a survey of over 4000 childfree to learn about the childfree choice and those who make it. I recently had the chance to interview her about the survey, her...
by Laura | Jun 11, 2013 | Baby Matrix related, Pronatalism
Journalist and author Lauren Sandler (pictured) recently interviewed me about pronatalism and The Baby Matrix. Today her book, One & Only came out. We talked a lot about the pronatalist myths that the childfree and those with one child have in common—the biggest?...
by Laura | Apr 5, 2013 | Baby Matrix related, Pronatalism
With the Supreme Court taking on same-sex marriage (or will they-we shall see), marriage traditionalists have been out there touting the old notion that the purpose of marriage is ultimately about procreation. Old, indeed. And just no longer true. Even marriage...
by Laura | Mar 14, 2013 | Pronatalism
I’ve written here about pronatalism’s costs to children, including the costs associated with unfit parents. The Atlantic has too, with a recent startling piece by Mia Fontaine on unfit parents when it comes to child sexual abuse. She writes, “People...
