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Normalize Being Childfree

A post shared by Leilani Münter (@leilanimunter) on Jan 17, 2017 at 12:07pm PST We’ve been documenting a pretty dramatic shift in recent years as the childfree choice has moved from fringe to mainstream, and professional race driver Leilani Münter’s public stance is perfect proof of this phenomena. She has become a staunch supporter of […]

Choosing Nulliparity to Combat Overpopulation

The childfree tide is rising with each passing year. Actually, lately it seems like each month reveals an uptick in the child-freedom trend. Whether zeitgeist of simply smart (and long overdue) cultural shift, it’s exciting to witness more and more women (and more and more couples) choosing not to reproduce. Career, lifestyle, health, romance, finances, […]

Study: Wanting Things (Kids?) Makes Us Happier Than Having Them

This article, Study: Wanting Things Makes Us Happier Than Having Them, does not mention children specifically, but… should it? Is the modern desire for children, like our want for other new, shiny things, a result of relentless marketing? The most defensible, obvious answer to both of the questions above is “No”. Biology, instinct, and the […]

The Happiness Project – “Lighten Up” on the Childfree

The NYTimes bestseller by Gretchen Rubin is a year-in-the-life exploration of a writer trying to live her life happier. What does that mean? Each month is broken into a theme: energy, love, play, etc. April’s theme is “Lighten Up” with a subtitle: Parenthood. Hmm. Maybe that means you don’t need to “lighten up” if you […]

Daring to Tell the Truth About Sustainability

Today’s guest post is from Terry Spahr, Executive Producer of 8 Billion Angels, a documentary exploring the impact of humanity’s growing numbers on planet Earth. The film details mankind’s rapid ascent across the globe and the inextricable links between population and our ever-increasing food, water, climate, and extinction emergencies. Terry uncovers the truth about climate change, […]

Becoming an elderly with no kids

After the age of 85, the likelihood of needing assistance with one or more activities of daily living from a facility offering assisted living for seniors or a caregiver, increases dramatically. 16% of people aged between ages of eighty-five and ninety-three need some form of help with these activities — with that percentage rising to […]

Childfree Vacation: No Kids, No Fun?

The WNK quartet was recently indulging in a little mid-week, mid-summer bliss (think Lake Champlain, locally grown eats, frosty libations, nary the shadow of a kidlet) when a couple of us stumbled on a particularly obvious reason we have no kids. We are kids. Sure we’re all in our fourth decades, but maturity seems to […]

Friday Funny- Why No Kids? Black Thumb.

Hopefully this explains everything: Also this: (Who kills succulents??? Me.) In 2002, I had a cactus for almost a month! Eleven years later I decided to try again with little success. In 1998, I got a puppy! In 1999, I gave it to my folks.Good news: fourteen years later they are not so eager for […]

No Quiet Zones for this childfree traveler?

By now we’ve all heard about Air Asia X’s quiet zones, seven designated economy class rows at the front of planes where children under 12 are not allowed, a point of contention for some pissed off parents and a supposed paradise for business travelers and the childfree, like me. To access this frequent flyers’ Eden, […]

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