by Laura | Oct 25, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree-Related Political issues
In previous posts I’ve lamented about how women political and judicial candidates get criticized for not being mothers–somehow being childfree makes them less qualified. Well, the issue is up again with the current Oklahoma governor’s race....
by Laura | Sep 16, 2010 | Childfree-Related Political issues
Watching Christine O’Donnell win this the primary in Delaware brought to mind other conservative pro-life women who ran in the primaries, some of whom are now going to be in the mid term elections. But let’s start with O’Donnell. Not only pro...
by Laura | Sep 10, 2010 | Childfree Issues, Childfree-Related Political issues
I am pleased to see that Australia’s Julia Gillard gained enough to support to form a minority government and remains Australia’s prime minister. Back while she was campaigning she got major flack for being “deliberately barren.” The treatment...
by Laura | Jun 25, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Media-Related, Childfree-Related Political issues
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard, is being “heralded as …the vanguard of a new breed of ‘pro-women, pro-life’ feminists” in the mold of Sarah Palin’s conservative pro-life agenda. And she’s not...
by Laura | May 29, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues, Childfree Lifestyles
On President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan–First let me say that if our society truly believed that parenthood was an OPTION in life the ludicrous discussion out there of late would not need to occur…Mothers and fathers wishing Kagan was...