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The Childfree Connection | Online Childfree CommunityThe Childfree Connection is a global community of like-minded women who inspire, support and celebrate each other’s choice to be child-free. As a childfree couple, we aim to help and connect people globally. Our signature program, The Ultimate Guide to Embracing a Childfree Life, covers fear of regr

Childless Childfree Women | The NotMomThe NotMom is dedicated to providing support to women who face challenges dealing with a childless lifestyle, either by choice or chance.

Your Resources — My So-Called Selfish Life Childfree resources, websites, books, and sterilization contacts, from the new childfree reproductive justice documentary My So-Called Selfish Life, by award-winning feminist filmmaker and childfree expert Therese Shechter

Support groups — World Childless WeekSupport groups for anyone grieving their childlessness, be they childless not by choice, involuntary childless or childless by circumstance.

HOME - Gateway WomenWelcome to Gateway Women, the support and advocacy network for childless women created by Jody Day in 2011. Whether you're childless due to infertility or circumstance you're in the right place. Things are just about to get a whole lot easier.

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Child Free Not By Choice/Childless | RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association

Women Without Children groupsFind over 12 Women Without Children groups with 3085 members near you and meet people in your local community who share your interests.

MY SO-CALLED SELFISH LIFEA paradigm-shifting documentary about one of our greatest social taboos: choosing to not become a mother.

Raising MothersCelebrating & Centering Black, Indigenous and Brown parenthood since 2015

Our future is at stake: Children share their biggest fears about climate change - WorldNews and Press Release in English on World about Climate Change and Environment and Protection and Human Rights; published on 26 Oct 2021 by Save the Children

Children Are Experiencing Widespread Climate Anxiety, Anger: StudyA landmark study shows kids are extremely anxious about climate change—and furious at governments for not taking action.

All I Want For Mother's Day Is To Be Left The F**k Alone"I’ve already informed my husband that while he’s welcome to go to brunch, he’ll be taking our son. And leaving me at home."

Deciding to have a baby amid the climate crisis: whatever you're feeling, you're not alone | CBC DocumentariesHaving a child is a deeply personal decision made more complicated by dire predictions for the future

I’ve chosen to be child-free: here is how I plan to build a life full of joy and meaningEven though I’m happy with my decision, not having kids can sometimes make me feel untethered. So I’ve built a list of alternative milestones

Young Europeans more likely to quit driving and have fewer children to save planetExclusive: Poll shows young people willing to make big lifestyle changes but baulk at smaller gestures

TikTok · Yuni771.5K likes, 9614 comments. “😅😭😭 ran out of ink for this”

Parenting in America TodayMental health concerns top the list of worries for parents, followed by concerns about their children being bullied. The vast majority of parents say being a parent is enjoyable and rewarding all or most of the time, but substantial shares also find it tiring and stressful.

Mom Rage: What It Feels Like and How It Can Affect KidsMom rage is intense or explosive anger that parents experience which often feels distinct from other types of anger or rage. Here's how to handle it.

Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Mother…Fear among new mothers is a growing but largely unrecog…

How Parenting Today Is Different, and HarderParents feel intense pressure to be more hands-on, and a new survey shows this often means more emotional engagement.

Today, Explained • Why millennials dread motherhood • Podcast AddictAmerican policy failures and bad PR have made millennials dread motherhood. Vox’s Rachel Cohen and Momfluenced author Sara Petersen explain.This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Rob Byers, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.Transcript at vox.com/todayexplainedSupport Today, Explained by making a financia

HOME - Gateway WomenWelcome to Gateway Women, the support and advocacy network for childless women founded by author and psychotherapist Jody Day in 2011. Whether you're childless due to infertility or circumstance you're in the right place. You've found your people and things are just about to get a whole lot easier.

Choosing Childfree - Population MattersHaving kids isn't for everyone. An increasing number of people are choosing - and enjoying - a childfree life. Find out more.

Eco-Anxiety and the Desire to Become Parents (Or Not) By 2050, 10 to 11 billion humans will share the planet's resources. "Is Earth overpopulated?" How many times have we heard this phrase that makes us flinch without ever finding clear answers. Is it really reasonable to want to stop making babies to save humanity? How can we fight our eco-anxiety in order to

All Joy No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenting — LitReaderNotesUnlike most of the myriad books available about parenting, Senior’s All Joy No Fun focuses on what the act of parenting does to modern parents (rather than what various parenting styles do to modern kids).  Breaking with the style of many parenting books, in which the author/parenting gur

The Parents Who Regret Having Children“I love them. I just don't love the choice I made.”

Q&A: Should We Be Having Babies In a Warming World? - Inside Climate NewsJade Sasser’s research explores one of the biggest questions facing the climate conscious. Her new book focuses on the racial dimensions of eco-anxiety and reproduction decisions.

Born into the Climate Crisis: Why we must act now to secure children’s rights | Save the Children’s Resource CentreThe threat posed to children and their rights by the climate crisis is not theoretical: it is real, and it is urgent. Save the Children has partnered with an international team of leading climate researchers led by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel to quantify the extent to which children will experience extreme weather events as a manifestation of climate change, the disparities between generations, and the widening inequality between high-income and low- and middle-income countries

Young People's Voices on Climate Anxiety, Government Betrayal and Moral Injury: A Global Phenomenon

Marriage and children don’t always make women happy. Who knew? | Suzanne MooreShould Prof Paul Dolan’s pronouncements change the way we think about life? Suzanne Moore is unconvinced

The Climate Baby Dilemma | Season 1 | CBC GemFor a growing number of young people, the climate crisis is affecting decisions about whether or not to have kids.

It's heartbreaking, but every new child born poses a danger to the ones already here***

How millennials learned to dread motherhoodTo our generation, being a mom looks thankless, exhausting, and lonely. Can we change the story?

Childlessness Did Not Cause Birth Rate Decline. According to this data, lifetime births per woman declined from 3.1 to 2.0 between 1976 and 2020, a fall of 37%.

You can’t even pay people to have more kidsThese countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work.

MPIDR - More People Want to Remain Childless

The Rise of Childless AmericaFamily life in America is changing: marriage is increasingly being postponed, cohabitation is rising, more young people are living with parents (or grandparents), and childbearing is falling. Emerging from all these trends is one particularly striking trend: rising childlessness. Births postponed ultimately lead to births foregone entirely. And indeed, the main cause of declining fertility in America is increasing childlessness at all ages (or, put another way, declining first births, rather than declining second or third births).

United States Ranks Lowest in Overall Policies Aimed at Helping Parents Support Children, Study of 20 Developed Nations Finds

Scenes from a Marriage: Jenny Offill on Modern Motherhood“Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits,” says the narrator of **Jenny Offill’**s slim marvel of a second novel, Dept. of Speculation (Knopf), an unflinching portrait of modern motherhood and its effect on one Brooklyn writer’s inner life.

Screaming on the Inside"If this book feels like it’s sounding the alarm on the state of American motherhood, well, that’s because it is." -- San Francisco Chronicle In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expec

'All The Rage' Isn't About Moms Having It All — It's About Moms Doing It AllPsychologist Darcy Lockman says there's been progress since the 1950s, but equal partnerships are a long way off. Her book All the Rage explores uneven distribution of childcare and domestic labor.

Book Review: All Joy and No Fun, by Jennifer Senior - economicequityformoms.orgAll Joy and No Fun is a book I would give to new parents. When I was pregnant, I read a myriad of books about pregnancy and having a baby. But it feels like as soon as you are able to keep a baby alive with relative confidence, very few books are written to help you navigate your own experience with parenthood. This book fills that gap.

Opinion | Maternal Instinct Is a Myth That Men Created (Published 2022)The idea that women arrive at motherhood prepared for the job continues to wreak damage. Can new science help us to let it go?

The Full Stop CommunityOnline community and podcast for childless community, sharing diverse stories of non-parenting. We host events, provide talks and welcome guests on topics relating to childless not by choice.

Join our online community space — The Full Stop Community

Raising MothersCelebrating & Centering Black, Indigenous and Brown parenthood since 2015

How to date when you’re a woman who doesn’t want childrenWomen still face societal expectations when searching for a partner. Experts share tips on how to navigate childfree dating

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We are teachers, doctors, business owners, authors, computer experts - you name it. We choose to call ourselves "childfree" rather than "childless," because we ...

Nonparents – global community for the childfreeGlobal community for the childfree. Articles, stories, support, agony aunt

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Homepage | RESOLVE: The National Infertility AssociationWe are here until the barriers to building your family are not. how can we help? I Want to Find Resources in Alabama Find support Join the Fight for Families Learn how to advocate Find financial resources Find an expert Donate or fundraise for RESOLVE Volunteer Register for Advocacy Day Modal Box modal- Click here

Opinion: Why I’m not going to have children | CNNGiven the climate crisis, I feel as if I would be doing an increasingly irreparable injustice to any children I would bring into this world, writes Anna Lee.

These 2 Terms Are Used For People Without Kids — But There’s A Major Problem With Them"I wonder why this term is used to describe adults who have an abundance of other qualities, characteristics and roles in their life"

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