La Vie Childfree

If you have been following me, you know that I’ve had this childfree blog site for some time now…

Hopefully you’ve also visited LiveTrue Books, my nonfiction book review and online bookstore site, and my author and communications services site.

Very Soon:

These sites will combine into one!

We’ll continue engaging discussions on childfree topics and much more, the growing LiveTrue bookstore will be there, as well as details on my editorial and communications services.

Here’s to expansion, and stay tuned for the launch!

Last year I wrote about Elizabeth Kolbert’s article in The New Yorker that talks about a guy who sure is worth knowing about: Charles Knowlton.

Since then I have read a great biography of Knowlton by Dan Allosso. Knowlton was a father of the idea that having children is a choice, that parenthood is optional. (more…)

There remains the popular stereotype that the childfree must not like kids, and because we choose not to raise children we don’t want them to play a role in our lives.  This is just not true for so many people who don’t have kids by choice. As associate professor and sociology department chair at the University of Maine Amy Blackstone writes in her piece, “Childless & Loving It: Not Being a Parent Has Advantages For Families & Kids” … (more…)

I hope you had a listen to 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 the Babies Gone,” and was interested in talking more about it as well as the childfree choice, which the piece focused on as a less than positive effect on current demographic trends.  Here’s a few post show thoughts: (more…)