by Laura | Dec 15, 2020 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree Media-Related, Childfree-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
What a year. Like in years past, I have closely watched childfree trends in 2020. To start off my latest end-of-year childfree trending piece, how can we not start with the pandemic. The Pandemic and the Childfree Choice The impact of the pandemic has spurred talk...
by Laura | Mar 6, 2018 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related, Childfree-Related
I sure like seeing more pieces out there these days on childfree sterilization in popular women’s publications. A recent piece in SELF on this topic deserves mention. After Deputy Editor Nina Bahadur relays a few women’s frustrating experiences and...
by Laura | Oct 1, 2017 | Baby Matrix related, Pronatalism
Have you heard that Starbucks is now offering IVF as an employee perk? A few other companies have started offering an IVF benefit, but Starbucks is going further. As the article, “How Starbucks covers pricey in vitro fertilization for even its part-time employees”...
by Laura | Dec 30, 2016 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Events, Childfree-Related, Laura's La Vie Childfree Writings Library
At the beginning of 2016, I took stock of 40+ years of talking about the childfree choice. As we near the end of this year, I’d like to do the same just for this past year, and this time widen the discussion a bit. What positive trends have we seen this past year?...
by Laura | Mar 24, 2014 | Nonfiction Related
I recently made the acquaintance of population expert Kurt Dahl. He has written an interesting essay about Dan Brown’s book, Inferno. While a novel, it deals with the very real issue of overpopulation. In the book Brown has an “antagonist execute a...