by Laura | Feb 4, 2015 | Baby Matrix related, Childfree/Parenthood Related, Pronatalism
Last fall, I posted my interview with Kimya Dennis, Assistant Professor at Salem College, who was teaching the sociology course, The Childfree, and using my book, The Baby Matrix, as part of the curriculum. Now that the course is over, I asked her a few more questions...
by Laura | Jan 5, 2015 | Childfree Book-Related, Childfree Interview-Related, Childfree Issues, Childfree/Parenthood Related, Pronatalism
I recently heard from Orna Donath, an Israeli scholar and author I interviewed awhile back on the childfree in Israel. She has two new published articles about motherhood and regret in Israel based on her Ph.D. work. Check them out and my interview with her here:...
by Laura | Mar 13, 2013 | Childfree Issues, Childfree Research-related
Childfree Psy.D. student, Adi Avivi MS, recently conducted an interesting dissertation project. It examined childfree women’s communication on online platforms. I asked Adi if she would summarize her research for us to read here, and she was kind enough to say...
by Laura | Mar 1, 2013 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Issues
Here’s to March as Women’s History Month – As a way to honor it, I invite you to write in one (or more) of your favorite women from history who did not have children. She can be someone who was childless by circumstance or not, or a woman who was...
by Laura | Feb 22, 2013 | Childfree Book-Related, Childfree Issues
I am reading Ashley Judd’s memoir, All That is Bitter & Sweet. I have been a big fan of her acting work, and now learning more about her international humanitarian work – Amazing and inspiring. And she is childfree – Early on in the book she...
