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Permanent Birth Control
Star LaBranche brings us our latest childfree story. Star is a freelance writer and editor. She tells us that only reason she would ever...
Lance Blackstone
Jun 10, 20143 min read
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Eliminating the Culture of Intensive Parenting: A Win-Win for Everyone
We can probably all agree that we’ll never all agree on how, when, or even whether, the childfree get to talk about parenting. Some say...
Lance Blackstone
May 23, 20142 min read
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Why I Don’t Want to Be a Mom. Or an Astronaut.
Today’s childfree story is brought to you by Rachel. She brilliantly explains why she doesn’t want to be a mom… or an astronaut. Rachel’s...
Lance Blackstone
May 21, 20143 min read
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Married with Luggage. Without Kids.
Recently we had the awesome opportunity to be interviewed by Warren and Betsy Talbot for their Married with Luggage podcast. If we had to...
Lance Blackstone
May 13, 20145 min read
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Heteronormativity in Parenthood Expectations
Welcome to another Childfree Story! Today we meet Ramona & Frances, a childfree same-sex couple living in Canada. Ramona is Canadian and...
Lance Blackstone
Apr 29, 20142 min read
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Running Shoes
I just ordered a new pair of running shoes for the first time in about 4 years. Exciting news, right? Not really, but it did get me...
Lance Blackstone
Apr 9, 20144 min read
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South African & Childfree
South Africans Can Be Childfree Too It is a well-known fact* that South Africans are almost never childfree. Why is this you ask? Well,...
Lance Blackstone
Mar 26, 20143 min read
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Princeton Mom Susan Patton(-tly) Crazy
We have our first guest post on Lance’s Rants! Yep, today Amy steps up to the mic to drop her two cents on the musings of wack job Susan...
Lance Blackstone
Mar 14, 20143 min read
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To The People Who Seem Unable to Behave Like Adults
I like a good parent on parent brawl as well as the next childfree person, but when I read blogger Dad On The Run‘s recent post To The...
Lance Blackstone
Mar 7, 20143 min read
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Losing a Friend
I wrote this for Marcia Drut-Davis, a childfree trailblazer, a while back. Thanks for allowing me to re-post! If you don’t already, you...
Lance Blackstone
Feb 28, 20144 min read
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Childfree & Still Raising Other Peoples Barns
A barn raising is an event in which members of a farming community band together to, ahem, raise a barn. Anywho, the point is that the...
Lance Blackstone
Feb 19, 20143 min read
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Chris Jeub – Master of Debate or Logical Fallacy?
Amy has already done a most excellent, and kindly, job of eviscerating the particulars of hexadecadad™ Chris Jeub’s recent blog...
Lance Blackstone
Jan 30, 20149 min read
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Getting Parents on Board the Childfree Bus
So, a few days ago Amy posted a link to a news article on our Facebook page. The article summarizes research findings on the relative...
Lance Blackstone
Jan 22, 20145 min read
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Holiday Cards: Parents Gone Missing!
We’ve identified a trend in the holiday photo cards that have been filling our mailbox: a noticeable absence of parents! And it’s not...
Lance Blackstone
Dec 25, 20131 min read
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Childfree in New Zealand, Part 2
Today we present part 2 of Childfree in New Zealand, the ongoing saga of the lives and loves of the childfree in the land of the Kiwi!...
Lance Blackstone
Nov 8, 20134 min read
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Childfree in New Zealand, Part 1
You may not know it, but this childfree thing is truly an international phenomenon. Amy, in all of her academic wisdom tells me that the...
Lance Blackstone
Nov 7, 20133 min read
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dooce.com Drops a Deuce on the Childfree
A couple of days ago the Google delivered a blog post to me from dooce.com with the intriguing title Wait until this gets picked up in a...
Lance Blackstone
Oct 25, 20132 min read
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Newsflash! Childfree Man Doesn’t Hate Kids!
If you follow this childfree thing much at all you quickly realize that there are a multitude of reasons for why people choose not...
Lance Blackstone
Oct 19, 20134 min read
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Childfree from 1974 to Today – Marcia Drut-Davis
Marcia Drut-Davis is a pioneer in the childfree movement. She is the author of Confessions of a Childfree Woman, runs the site Childfree...
Lance Blackstone
Oct 10, 20133 min read
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Childfree – A Latina Woman’s Perspective
The following Childfree Story is brought to us by Gloria de Leon. Gloria is a Latina, and as a member of that community, has some...
Lance Blackstone
Sep 26, 20135 min read
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