childless
We Thought We’d Be Moms. What We Think Now. + Erin S. Lane
By Roxanne Stone — November 3, 2022
Katelyn and Roxy grapple with their own winding paths to life without kids. Erin S. Lane joins to challenge the default scripts of motherhood so often handed to women by society — and churches!
Childless at Christmas
By Karen Swallow Prior — December 16, 2021
(RNS) — Some holiday traditions offer particular challenges to those who aren’t part of a nuclear family at Christmas, challenges the rest of us might not even imagine.
When she doesn’t want a baby
By Jana Riess — April 14, 2021
(RNS) — It’s often assumed that of course women want to be mothers — that this desire is natural, God-given and universal. It's not, Donna Freitas asserts in the new novel 'The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano.'
The future of the church may belong to the fecund, but not the nuclear family
By Holly Stallcup — June 18, 2020
(RNS) — The church’s focus on the family, renewed in a recent article by Kevin DeYoung, pushes to the margins those whose lives don’t include bearing and rearing children.
Pope Francis, cats and no kids: The Twitterverse responds
By Heather Adams — June 3, 2014
(RNS) When Pope Francis warned married couples not to substitute pets and vacation homes for children, was that a slap against childless couples? Some people thought so.
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