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Childfree AND a Kid Person? It’s Possible!

Posted on: June 24, 2014 Last updated on: April 30, 2019 Written by: admin Comments: 0
Sometimes the childfree stories we share teach us a totally new perspective from our own. Sometimes it feels like we’re reading our own story! Courtney’s is a case of the latter. We too assumed we’d have kids one day and…
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Permanent Birth Control

Posted on: June 10, 2014 Last updated on: April 30, 2019 Written by: admin Comments: 0
Star LaBranche brings us our latest childfree story. Star is a freelance writer and editor. She tells us that only reason she would ever have children would be in order to buy Hello Kitty items that are made for small people. She currently…
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Why I Don’t Want to Be a Mom. Or an Astronaut.

Posted on: May 21, 2014 Last updated on: April 30, 2019 Written by: admin Comments: 0
Today’s childfree story is brought to you by Rachel. She brilliantly explains why she doesn’t want to be a mom… or an astronaut. Rachel’s Childfree Story Growing up with my older sister, we loved to play with three things: Barbies, Legos and…
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Married with Luggage. Without Kids.

Posted on: May 13, 2014 Last updated on: April 30, 2019 Written by: admin Comments: 0
Recently we had the awesome opportunity to be interviewed by Warren and Betsy Talbot for their Married with Luggage podcast. If we had to condense what Warren and Betsy are doing at Married with Luggage into one sentence we would say that they…
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Heteronormativity in Parenthood Expectations

Posted on: April 29, 2014 Last updated on: April 30, 2019 Written by: admin Comments: 0
Welcome to another Childfree Story! Today we meet Ramona & Frances, a childfree same-sex couple living in Canada. Ramona is Canadian and Frances is from the US, which makes them an interracial couple as well. Hold on…Amy wants to tell me…
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South African & Childfree

Posted on: March 26, 2014 Last updated on: April 30, 2019 Written by: admin Comments: 0
South Africans Can Be Childfree Too It is a well-known fact* that South Africans are almost never childfree. Why is this you ask? Well, it’s because African predators like lions and giraffes are drawn to the childfree as prey items.…
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Childfree in New Zealand, Part 2

Posted on: November 8, 2013 Last updated on: April 30, 2019 Written by: admin Comments: 0
Today we present part 2 of Childfree in New Zealand, the ongoing saga of the lives and loves of the childfree in the land of the Kiwi! That’s not right. I mean the Kiwi. That’s actually not right for more reasons than just the…
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Childfree in New Zealand, Part 1

Posted on: November 7, 2013 Last updated on: April 30, 2019 Written by: admin Comments: 0
You may not know it, but this childfree thing is truly an international phenomenon. Amy, in all of her academic wisdom tells me that the trend to be childfree shows the greatest growth in, probably not too shockingly, developed nations.  Given…
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Childfree from 1974 to Today – Marcia Drut-Davis

Posted on: October 10, 2013 Last updated on: April 30, 2019 Written by: admin Comments: 2
Marcia Drut-Davis is a pioneer in the childfree movement. She is the author of Confessions of a Childfree Woman, runs the site Childfree Reflections, and can be followed on Facebook here. As you’ll read below, Marcia put herself ‘out there’ nearly 4 decades…
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Childfree – A Latina Woman’s Perspective

Posted on: September 26, 2013 Last updated on: April 30, 2019 Written by: admin Comments: 0
The following Childfree Story is brought to us by Gloria de Leon. Gloria is a Latina, and as a member of that community, has some interesting perspectives to offer on the pressures experienced by women of this ethnic group. While some readers…
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CHILDFREE BY CHOICE: Survey Says!

Reviews of Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence are rolling in, and we’re pleased as punch to see that folks are enjoying the book! Freelance reviewer Terri Schlichenmeyer (AKA The Bookworm Sez) wrote a…
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It’s a… BOOK!

Introducing Childfree by Choice, due June 11!
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{childfree} manifesto

This is our manifesto; what we’re {not} having a baby! is all about. We hope you like it! If you do, get your own copy here! Special thanks to [Expert Enough] for inspiring our manifesto. Imitation being the sincerest form…
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To My Galentines, With Love

As a 40-something year old woman, I’ve been around for enough years to have enjoyed my share of friendships. Some were short-lived but intense, like the sort made at summer camp when you find your soulmate during orientation and then…
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Follow Your Instincts

by Emma Clarkson So, how was your 2017? Absolutely nuts, you say? Madder than a bag of spiders, you say? The worst time of your entire life … but hey, 2018 is gonna be your year – you can just…
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