Blog Profile / La Vie Childfree
| URL : | http://lauracarroll.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Lifestyle Choices / Child-Free | |
| Posts on Regator: | 135 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.5 | |
| Archived Since: | August 28, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Book Event on Women Writers Bypassing Parenthood
Add this new book to the growing number of books out there about the childfree choice: No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood. It is a collection of essays edited by Henriette Mantel (right), a New York comedy writer. I am...Show More Summary
The Life of Charles Knowlton: A Must Read Biography
Who is an amazing man from the 19th century too many people don’t know about? Charles Knowlton. Now more will, thanks to this excellent biography, An Infidel Body-Snatcher and the Fruits of his Philosophy: The Life of Charles Knowlton by Dan Allosso. Show More Summary
Chewing on Another New Childfree Book: I Can Barely Take Care of Myself
When I first saw the title of Jen Kirkman’s new book, I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids, I sighed. On the upside, I loved the idea that there was a new book out by a great female comedian who was childfree. Show More Summary
New Memoir: How 60 Minutes Changed Marcia Drut-Davis’ Life
Confessions of a Childfree Woman fills a needed niche of nonfiction writings on having no children by choice. Marcia Drut-Davis’ memoir gives us an up close and personal story from who we don’t hear enough from in the childfree community – the elder childfree. Show More Summary
Costs & Risks in the Surrogacy Business
The lengths couples will go to have their own biological child has fueled the rise of a booming business: surrogacy. As more couples do it, the more we are seeing how complicated it can get – for the parents and the child. San Francisco Chronicle reporter Stephanie M. Show More Summary
The Outmoded Pronatalist Marriage – Procreation Bond
With the Supreme Court taking on same-sex marriage (or will they-we shall see), marriage traditionalists have been out there touting the old notion that the purpose of marriage is ultimately about procreation. Old, indeed. And just...Show More Summary
Why We All Need to Read Man Swarm by Dave Foreman
Recently talking with David Paxson, President of World Population Balance and national leader on the issue of population stabilization inspired me to read a great book on this issue – again. The book is Man Swarm, by author and leading conservationist Dave Foreman. Show More Summary
The Ponzi Demography Scheme
Thank goodness we are seeing smart pieces shooting holes in Jonathan Last’s recent baby bust scares. John Seager, President of Population Connection, does just that in a recent post on sustainablog.org. What does he think of Last’s contention...Show More Summary
Another Reason We Need Parenthood Education – Way Before Kids Arrive
I’ve written here about pronatalism’s costs to children, including the costs associated with unfit parents. The Atlantic has too, with a recent startling piece by Mia Fontaine on unfit parents when it comes to child sexual abuse. She writes, “People are rightly horrified by abuse scandals at Penn State and in the Catholic church. Show More Summary
Taking Part in NPRs Tell Me More’s Segment “Not Having Kids Bad For the Economy?”
Please check out the segment, “Not Having Kids Bad for the Economy?” on the NPR show Tell Me More I was part of this week. Host Michel Martin had read the recent piece by Harry Siegel and Joel Kotkin on thedailybeast, “Where Have All...Show More Summary
Why Not to Fear an Increasing Aging Population
Charles Kenny at Businessweek.com gives a smart perspective in response to the recent baby bust scares by folks like Jonathan Last and Joel Kotkin- that one negative effect of lower birthrates will be that there will be too many elderly. ...Show More Summary
More on Setting the Record Straight on Baby Bust Scares
From my previous post here, on La Vie Childfree and Huffpo, the recent ink out there are why we need to really be concerned about falling birthrates got me going! Like Jonathan Last’s piece in the Wall Street Journal online, “America’s...Show More Summary
Signs of Positive Change for Reviews of Self-Published Books
As Suw Charman-Anderson recently wrote in her article, “New York Times Reviews Self-Published Book” on Forbes.com, “If there’s one thing every self-published author yearns for, it’s to be reviewed alongside traditionally published books. Show More Summary
Baby Bust Scares: Another Dimension of The Baby Matrix at Work
Jonathan Last, author of the new book, What to Expect When No One is Expecting, has been out there talking about why we need to be very concerned about how “nobody is having enough children” and its implications on the sustainability of our country’s economic success. Show More Summary
More Great Reviews on The Baby Matrix
Great reviews for The Baby Matrix continue to come in! Here’s a few more. If you have read it, don’t be shy-share your reader review as well! … “this was a fascinating book… As a woman in her mid-30’s who is still on the fence aboutShow More Summary
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 incredibly prohibitive.” Adoption.com states, “Adopting from the U.S. Show More Summary
The Bad & Good News About Recent Happiness Studies
In the last few years we have seen studies out there asking whether parents are happier than people without children. On January 16, USA Today reported on three more such studies. There’s some bad and good news about these and other studies. Show More Summary
Discrimination Based on Reproductive Choice
There is an increasing amount of talk out there about how the childfree face inequities when it comes to tax and workplace policies. It exists in the halls of academia as well. Here is an example – this story from a graduate student blew me away. Show More Summary
Thinking Writing an eBook in 2013?
How many people do you know who have said they want to write a book. Maybe that’s you, and it’s on your list of New Year’s resolutions. These days, many people think that writing an eBook is much easier than a traditional book. Not so. Show More Summary
How Researchers & Media Feed Pronatalist Thinking
Danish researchers recently did a study on mortality rates of those with and without children. What did they find? As The Atlantic article indicates, that “While unable to prove causation, the authors concluded that mortality rates...Show More Summary