by Laura | Feb 27, 2018 | Social-Cultural Issues
Pew Research Center recently came out with an interesting report on the numbers of women having children. Based primarily on data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s June Supplement of the Current Population Survey, Pew Research Center collected “completed fertility”...
by Laura | Aug 31, 2017 | Childfree Research-related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
On the heels of Serena William’s comment that when she gives birth, she will “be a real woman now,” YouGov, a non-partisan public opinion poll organization, conducted a poll with some interesting results that relate to the childfree, and others who decide...
by Laura | Jan 5, 2017 | Social-Cultural Issues
Some new numbers from a Pew Research Center (PRC) FactTank article got me pondering. It states that “Millennial women (those born from 1981 to 1997) accounted for about eight-in-ten (82%) U.S. births in 2015.” Now that is a high percentage. Wharton School...
by Laura | Nov 15, 2016 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Research-related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
Zoë Krupka’s piece, “Childfree: why women who choose not to have kids are given such a hard time” on theconversation.com speaks to some interesting research on the childfree in Australia. Social Exclusion One study titled “Social Exclusion of...
by Laura | Oct 25, 2016 | Social-Cultural Issues
Reading the recent article, “The New Science of Single People” published on nymag.com’s Science of Us got me thinking about what lifelong single people have in common with the childfree: it revolves around being subject to myths. In her informative piece, Jesse Singal...
