by Laura | Oct 13, 2011 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Interview-Related, Childfree Media-Related, Childfree Psychology-Related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Remember the story in the media about the “pregnancy pact” of the girls in Gloucester, Mass.? Well their story is told in a new documentary, The Gloucester-18. I had the pleasure of talking with its producer, Kristen Grieco Elworthy. Here is Part I of my...
by Laura | Sep 22, 2011 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Lifestyles, Childfree/Parenthood Related
How did 21 year old mom Amber Portwood make $140,000 in six months? She had a contract with MTV to be on the reality tv show, Teen Mom. Like other young women on other teen mom reality shows… like Teen Mom 2, and 16 and Pregnant, she is a young mother who became...
by Laura | Apr 29, 2011 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree/Parenthood Related
An unsettling segment called “Mothers of Unplanned Consequences” was recently on abc. The media is doing quite a pronatalist number on young women, and the young moms are the ones who end up paying quite the price. Groups of young women agree to get...
by Laura | Mar 26, 2011 | Childfree-Related Political issues
The House recently debated an amendment that would severely impact family planning our country. It would cut off funding for Planned Parenthood. But the bill would do more than this–it would kill “Title X” … …a 1970 law that provides...
by Laura | Nov 15, 2010 | Childfree & Sociology Topics, Childfree Research-related, Childfree/Parenthood Related
Here’s more from the U.S. Census newly released report, “Fertility of American Women.” Data was collected from three million households in 2008. My last post spoke to data on women with no children. Here are some numbers I found interesting regarding women who...
