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A Hormone Rollercoaster

Edit The Atlantic 06 Jul 2016
And this reader doesn’t want to fly off the rails.. Thank you for Ashley Lauretta’s article on tokophobia. I’d like to share my experience but prefer to remain anonymous, please. I am a childfree woman in her late 20s. I find the idea of pregnancy abhorrent and frightening in almost every way. Everything about it makes me cringe, most intensely if I imagine myself giving birth ... Going off the hormonal birth control was ten times worse ... > ....

Six Appeals to Society From a Mother

Edit Huffington Post 28 Jun 2016
As if breast vs bottle, career vs homelife or thin vs fat wasn't enough, it seems we can pit women against one another through motherhood vs childless/free too. Is this a media led friction or a genuine issue between women?! ... I have hopes and dreams ... I don't consider myself any more of less sorted than my childfree/less friends (in fact on any given school morning my family status can make me feel a lot less sorted!) ... ....

Childfree and happy

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 11 Jun 2016
However, there are also many who believe they "dodged a bullet" by remaining childfree; those who have learnt to accept their circumstances happily and those who were ambivalent in the first place ... It is the salient fact that this collective childfree voice is being overlooked not just by traditional society but the policy makers who shape it, that is of real concern to me however....

The Religious Right's Policing of Sex Robs Pleasure From the Underprivileged

Edit Alternet 28 May 2016
Sexual intimacy and pleasure are some of humanity’s most cherished experiences ... Take your pick ... Why Christianity Is Obsessed With Sex ... ... If individuals who are young and elderly, stable and transitioning, queer and straight, partnered and single, parenting and childfree, claim the right to pleasure themselves and each other and to form intimate bonds based on no authority save their own mutual consent and delight, the Church is screwed....

No regrets, it was only a repartee

Edit Khaleej Times 26 May 2016
A few days ago, I put up a Facebook post on the interaction between Claire Underwood and Hannah Conway ... Here's how they went for the jugular. Hannah Conway (to the child-free Claire) ... life choices ... In the process, I got a peek into a rather judgemental mindset of some folks who clearly feel that the childfree Claire (yes, I know, she's evil but that's not really relevant here) should not have been allowed to trump the kids-in-tow Hannah....

It harms women more than men when dads doing parenting are seen as “babysitters”

Edit New Statesman 29 Apr 2016
In the grand scheme of things, being seen as a mere babysitter is less dehumanising than being seen as a mere woman. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... It seems more and more fathers want to be recognised as equal carers, and who can blame them? ... While carework is seen as the key reason why mothers earn less than childfree women, men with children earn more than men without....

We set up an annual festival to keep our family together

Edit The Guardian 09 Apr 2016
They only seemed to meet at funerals. But Barney Bardsley’s niece had an idea – a regular summer celebration. Some families spend their whole lives in each other’s pockets ... Perhaps this is reassuring; or perhaps it suffocates. Our family is quite different ... For the first time in their lives, they could indulge in holidays abroad and in hobbies – gardening, golf and long, indulgent lunches – that were blissfully, and honourably, childfree....

Joy Bryant Wants Everyone To Stop Telling Her To Have Kids

Edit Huffington Post 05 Apr 2016
PSA. A woman's choice to not have children is no one's business but her own. . And that's exactly what actress Joy Bryant is telling everyone in her essay "Stop Telling Me I Should Have Kids" featured in Tuesday morning's edition of Lenny Letter.  ... "I don’t have the need to breed." ... The childfree actress explained definitively that women are not "automatic breeders" and should never be treated as such ... ....

My medals are a tribute to my mother

Edit Stuff 30 Mar 2016
Last week I was sitting in my lounge and looking at my 8-month-old daughter, and as it happens with so many of us parents, I started thinking ahead. I started thinking about the time when she would say her first words, when she would learn to brush her own teeth, the day she will go to school ... READ MORE.. * Woman faces online abuse for not having children. * Will women who choose to go childfree regret it? ... Ad Feedback ... ....

Stop fetishising parenting - you’re sucking all the joy out of it!

Edit The Guardian 26 Mar 2016
Throw out the mummy and daddy manuals and ditch the philosophies – your kids will be fine and you will be happier ... Oddly – or not oddly at all for those of us who have spent the past hour stuck in traffic with a toddler shouting “poo-poo nugget” on endless repeat – study after study has shown that people with children are less happy than the childless (or childfree as they call themselves, while ordering another round of margaritas) ... ....

A Bill Maher theory: Kids will bring him succes

Edit The Examiner 23 Mar 2016
Unfortunately, childfree bachelors are often stereotyped as irresponsible playboys ... She cited research showing “childfree, unmarried women earn 96 cents for every dollar a man earns, while married mothers earn 76 cents, and a woman’s pay goes down with the addition of each child.” She believes there is more to the problem than just gender discrimination....

14 Basics to Know About Infertility and Loss

Edit Huffington Post 22 Mar 2016
1. You know someone struggling. The numbers are staggering. 1 in 8 will struggle to conceive. 1 in 4 pregnancies will end in a loss. 1 in 160 deliveries will in with a child born still. Let these numbers sink in. You know someone affected by this journey, whether or not they speak about it publicly ... 2. Know your sex ed ... Around 8 weeks we have a fetus ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... The waits are endless ... 7 ... 8 ... 9 ... For others we will accept a childfree not by choice life ... ....

Wonder Women returns: Manchester's feminist festival

Edit The Guardian 04 Mar 2016
Being Childfree with Kate Fox. It’s 2016 and yet not only are there still cries of “women aren’t funny!” but also those who take the view that anyone who actually chooses to go “childfree” is unicorn rare ... In Being Childfree, Fox will be tackling just exactly what “childfree” means, whether the word is having a zeitgeist moment, and whether or not even the menopause will stop people telling her that she’ll “change her mind” ... ....
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