Contest: Win a Free Copy of “No Children, No Guilt” -CONTEST CLOSED-
[Entry deadline: REACHED. Winners announced.] I always hate the day after Christmas, when all of the build-up has passed and the anticipation is gone and the atmosphere feels like it’s taking a sniff...
View ArticleContest Winners Announced!
The following two names were chosen by Victor from the special Contest Hat: 1. Stephanie (post #1) 2. Stacey (post #37 when not counting the posts I made) Congrats! Your books will go in the mail next...
View ArticleDivorce: When Is It the Right Time?
One of the hardest things about marriage is knowing when to leave. How do you know it’s time? Having left a couple of marriages myself, I have some experience in this area and share my take on how you...
View ArticleKids: The Next Excitement?
People have children for any variety of reasons: – “I just want them.” – “I want to do better by my child than my parents did by me.” – “I’m afraid of being old and alone.” – “I think it would be...
View ArticleMost Pressing Childfree Questions Answered
When I look at my site stats, I’m always intrigued by the search terms people have entered that led them to my website. And sometimes I’m troubled by them. But always, I wonder whether people found the...
View ArticleChildfree, why so mean to parents?
First: I know. Parents are also guilty of being mean to the child-free, calling us “selfish” and whatnot. So, I can see responding to a particular person who makes a particularly offensive remark. But...
View ArticleMom who says kids are her biggest regret – courageous or cruel?
Any child of parents can probably imagine what it might feel like to see a picture of their mother’s (or father’s) face in a major publication accompanying an article whose headline basically screams,...
View ArticleWill the childfree regret their choice later?
The Drink of Regret A man in his early thirties who, along with his wife, isn’t sure he ever wants kids asked this question on an internet forum I frequent: Do you regret not having kids? Everyone’s...
View ArticleWhat’s with all this “having it all” nonsense?
J.C. schools a kid (Photo from http://movies.zap2it.com) Within the first five minutes of the 1987 movie Baby Boom – about female advertising executive J.C. Wiatt – a partner at the firm, Fritz,...
View ArticleOfficially tired of the typical childfree conversation.
I keep seeing the same things over and over again in conversations about the childfree. And over and over. And maybe it’s because I’m writing essentially the same articles for work this year that I...
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