Being Childless by Unfortunate Timing
When I try to puzzle out why I never had children, I think the real answer is timing. The kids I might have had got lost in the crunch between my divorce and my second marriage. The first marriage...
View ArticleIs This Our Choice: Mother or Workaholic?
“Just Because a Woman is Childless Doesn’t Mean She wants to Be a Workaholic” by Rachelle Hampton, Slate, March 30, 2018 This article set off all kinds of bells in my head. When I read it, I was doing...
View ArticleWhen people assume we have children
I sit in a windowless conference room at a Doubletree Inn listening to yet another speaker talk about finding time to write. Children, especially little ones, seem to be the biggest obstacle for most....
View ArticleChildlessness needn’t define who we are
“Childless is one of the many things I am.” A year ago last weekend, I was at the NotMom Summit in Cleveland, Ohio, listening to Jody Day say this. At the time it was one of many things the founder of...
View ArticleDo You Have to Read This Blog in Secret?
Photo by Ekaterina Bolovtsova on Pexels.com Last week on a whim, I asked whether Childless by Marriage readers felt they needed to hide their participation in the blog, Facebook page, books, etc. I...
View ArticleThe Mother of All Dilemmas: Have a Baby Alone or Not?
The Mother of All Dilemmas: Dreams of Motherhood and the Internship That Changed Everything by Kathleen Guthrie Woods, Steel Rose Press, 2021. Woods is approaching 40 with no husband in sight. She...
View ArticleDoes growing up around kids feed your baby lust?
Does spending a lot of time with children increase or decrease your desire for children? That’s the question tickling my brain today. Last week I published an interview with author Kathleen Guthrie...
View ArticleWhat Do the Childless and Childfree Have in Common?
A friend who never wanted to have children said the other night that she knew I wrote about childlessness, but that had nothing to do with her because she chose not to have children. But we actually...
View ArticleIf We Don’t Have Kids, What Else Can We Give Our Parents?
Playing for my grandparents in 1990 I’m going to share an embarrassing part of my past today. Maybe you’ll identify with my younger self. I used to write a lot of songs. I performed and recorded many...
View ArticleWithout Children, We Need to Find Different Milestones
Milestones mark the seasons of our lives. They come quickly when we’re young: first teeth, first words, first steps, preschool, kindergarten, puberty, driving, graduation, first job, leaving home,...
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