Life Without Children

Broaching this sensitive topic requires caution, but let’s be more open and honest with each other.

Which goes beyond having nothing better to ask

Studies confirm that empathy isn’t correlated with reproduction

Investigating the fragile alliance amongst infertile women

A brutally honest guide for anyone still “thinking about it.”

He healed my grief not once, but twice

How I represent my life choices while traveling the cultural divide

And other questions, assumptions, and misconceptions I receive about being child-free

When will we understand that we don’t have to create a life to be a woman

And until the suppression of people without children is eradicated, I will keep waving my flag.

A 49th birthday, an early death, and history I don’t want to repeat

I don’t have a family; how do I feel?

Will you regret it?

Inhabiting a satisfying life without children being a part of it

Or: the value in having friendships outside your own age (whether you have children or not)

We should be making space for different choices, not providing explanations for them

This is the price we pay for ignoring future mothers.

How planning a weekend away with friends showed me where I stood in the pecking order

If I’d known, I might’ve frozen sooner — and had a better yield

Are you single and childless or childfree? Or do you have previous experience with this?

Why this middle-aged childless woman is no longer giving her attention to conversations about motherhood

Finding Connection in a World That Expects Motherhood

Because it’s hard enough to cope as it is

There’s a million adventures a woman can have, babies are just one option.