Stepping Back on “Looking Down On” Rants

Stepping Back on “Looking Down On” Rants

In case you have not seen it, Amy Glass’ post on Thought Catalog had the digital waves smoking this week. Her post, “I Look Down on Young Women With Husbands And Kids and I’m Not Sorry” got Chris Jeub going to the point where he took on the whole childfree movement...
Changing Mindsets on Adoption

Changing Mindsets on Adoption

In a recent article by Ashley Lauren at care2.com she asks, “Why Aren’t People Adopting?” She goes through some reasons that deserve further elaboration…. The first has to do with cost. Lauren writes that the cost of adoption “is...
New Study Points to Cracks in Pronatalism’s Influence

New Study Points to Cracks in Pronatalism’s Influence

Julia McQuillan, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist, recently conducted a survey of 1,200 American women, looking at the pressures they get to have children and the levels of distress they experience from not having children.   The survey’s findings...

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