I like to bring this post back around each year during holiday party time: Continue reading “The Art of Conversation: Childfree and Parents at Holiday Parties”
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Laura Carroll is a seasoned editor, writes nonfiction, and is a leading voice on the childfree choice.
Holiday Season Advertisers: It’s More Than Time to Target Women Without Children
Every holiday season, advertisers spend billions of marketing dollars to get us to buy their products and services. At this time of year, advertisers lose revenue because they don’t market to a specific demographic: the 47 percent of American women of childbearing age who are not mothers. Continue reading “Holiday Season Advertisers: It’s More Than Time to Target Women Without Children”
Have a Story About Your Childfree Life? Filmmaker Alexey Brazhnikov Wants to Talk With You
I am thrilled to see the recent rise in documentary films related to the childfree choice. Laura Scott’s film, The Childless by Choice Project led the way in 2010, and Magenta Baribeau’s Maman? Non merci! (No Kids For Me, Thanks!) won a Best Feature Film Award in 2016. Continue reading “Have a Story About Your Childfree Life? Filmmaker Alexey Brazhnikov Wants to Talk With You”
Busting Myths: This Time – Thanksgiving Myths
I like to bring this post back around as Thanksgiving approaches each year. Check it out: Continue reading “Busting Myths: This Time – Thanksgiving Myths”
The Premiere of the Documentary Film, To Kid Or Not To Kid, by Maxine Trump
Last weekend I was in New York at DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in the United States! I attended the premiere of the documentary film, To Kid Or Not To Kid by filmmaker Maxine Trump. The film follows Maxine’s personal journey of moving through her decision to live childfree. Continue reading “The Premiere of the Documentary Film, To Kid Or Not To Kid, by Maxine Trump”
The Childfree & Treats to Trick-or-Treaters
I sure remember loving Halloween when I was a kid. I loved figuring out my costume and carving a scary pumpkin.I had no clue of the roots of this holiday, and I bet that’s the case for most kids today. Of course I loved being able to run around the neighborhood with friends, stopping at every house to add to a growing bag of candy. It was rare for a house to be dark – as in no one was home – so we would not ring the front door bell, and yell “trick or treat!” there.
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Getting Personal: The Personality Brokers Book on the MBTI Inspires a Fun Look Back
I just finished the audible version of The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by associate professor of English at the University of Oxford, Merve Emre. Rather than post a review in my Book Review Corner, I feel inspired to write more of a personal piece. Why? I have a sentimental history with the Myers-Briggs. Continue reading “Getting Personal: The Personality Brokers Book on the MBTI Inspires a Fun Look Back”
The Childfree Wife
Shani Orgad, Associate Professor in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, has a recent interesting piece on theconversation.com. Titled “’Wifehood’ is not old-fashioned–here’s why it matters,” she discusses what wifehood means in today’s marriages, but focuses on the marital context that includes motherhood. What is ‘wifehood’ or the role of ‘wife’ in a childfree marriage? From interviews for Families of Two and qualitative data on heterosexual childfree married couples I’ve continued to collect since its publication, here’s the broad stroke of three that stand out. Continue reading “The Childfree Wife”
On the Childfree Marriage in Voluntary & Involuntary Childlessness: The Joys of Otherhood?
I am happy to have contributed the chapter, “The Intentionally Childless Marriage,” to the just released book, Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness: The Joys of Otherhood? (2018) published by Emerald Publishing in the UK. Continue reading “On the Childfree Marriage in Voluntary & Involuntary Childlessness: The Joys of Otherhood?”
A Cross-Check on “Most Popular Myths About Childfree People”
Bright Side’s recent piece, “What Childfree People Really Want and Why They Deliberately Refuse to Have Children,” needs some serious cross-checking. Since the late 1990s, I’ve been gathering qualitative data on childfree people and have interviewed and talked with thousands of them. Let’s look at the “most popular myths about childfree people” Bright Side talks about: Continue reading “A Cross-Check on “Most Popular Myths About Childfree People””
