It happens. You’re out at a lovely social occasion, enjoying simple chit-chat with friends and minding your own damn business when some busybody swoops in like a vulture on speed. “So when are you two having kids?” *cue eye roll and audible groan* Congrats! You’ve just been bingo-ed! Breeder Bingo is a delightful game of […]
On Wednesday 18th October, 2018 Queensland MPs voted to scrap laws making abortion illegal meaning that Queensland women will now be able to choose to have an abortion without risking criminal prosecution. Firstly, that is great news. It is a personal decision and choice that any women should be able to make for herself. However, […]
Double standards are all around us and I, along with the many childfree women around the world, have been subject to this our entire lives. As childfree women, we are subject too judgment and criticism, mostly from mums and other women who see our choice to be unnatural, weird, going against nature, sad and any […]
There are increasing numbers of people adopting pets rather than having kids, with the Oxford Dictionary adding the term ‘fur baby’ to its official lexicon in 2015. Increasing numbers of people (sixty-four per cent, up from fifty-nine per cent in 2013) regard their dog as a member of the family rather than just a companion […]
There are also plenty of childfree women who have oodles of love, affection and advice to share with nieces, nephews and friends’ kids as their honorary aunties. Elizabeth Gilbert explains it well in her May 2014 blog: ‘I have come to believe there are three sorts of women, when it comes to questions of maternity. […]
Once upon a time, I was a little girl growing up in the 70’s and 80’s and I had a cubby house which my Dad had made for us one Xmas. I lost track of the amount of time I spent in that cubby. We had a huge dress-up box, little mini shop set up, […]
As a childfree woman in her 40’s I have been subject to all manner of questions and comments about my choice to be childfree. Over the years I have been offended, infuriated, outraged and discussed by some of the comments I have been on the receiving end of. What I want you to consider is […]