by Emma Duval Adventure, career changes, international travel, charitable and philanthropic projects … these are goals shared by many childfree women today which were achieved over a hundred years ago…
Painting with Plants: Paying Tribute to Gertrude Jekyll
by Emma Palmer, 2018 International Childfree Day Winner “I’ll be a plantswoman in my next life!” I told my therapy supervisor a while back. I’d been writing about the parallels…
The Person We Call the “Mother of Basketball” Was Never a Mother at All
By Laura S. Scott, Childfree Author & Documentary Filmmaker I will forgive you if you haven’t heard the name Senda Berenson Abbott. Senda was born under the name Senda Valvrojenski…
Louisa May Alcott: A Profile of Courage and Self Determination
by Laura S. Scott Author of Two is Enough: A Couple’s Guide to Living Childless by Choice Like many of my peers growing up in the 60s and 70s, I…
Viola Desmond, a Canadian Civil Rights Trailblazer
by Chelsey Wren When I reflect on inspirational women without children, Viola Desmond is one of the first to come to mind. As a Canadian, I’m ashamed to admit that…
Mary Astell: A Life With No Children in the 1600s
by Rachel Chrastil, Ph.D London, 1694. At age twenty-eight, Mary Astell held a distinct vision for the life well lived. In her Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Astell proposed that unmarried women…