by Laura | Oct 18, 2013 | Baby Matrix related
As I discuss in The Baby Matrix, since the year 2000 more research has been conducted on those with no children than ever before. Studies have been conducted in many countries in a variety of areas. One area in which there has been a good deal of research involves...
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 | 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...
by Laura | Mar 8, 2013 | Childfree Interview-Related, Childfree Media-Related
Please check out the segment, “Not Having Kids Bad for the Economy?” on the NPR show Tell Me More I was part of this week. Host Michel Martin had read the recent piece by Harry Siegel and Joel Kotkin on thedailybeast, “Where Have All the Babies...
