Archive - Life Without Children

What’s With the Division Between Women Ultra-Runners Who Are Mothers and Those Who Aren’t?

Have you seen what Sophie Woods has just done, while processing her infertility?

Aug 5 • Ali Hall

Life Without Children Monthly Review and August Creative Prompt

Happy International Childfree Day, August 1st

Aug 1 • Ali Hall

July 2026

Why It’s Important for Childfree and Childless People to Have Friends Without Kids

This is not to the exclusion or replacement of our friends with kids

Jul 24 • Ali Hall

Parents Aren’t More Fulfilled Than Childless People — They Just Think They Are

Studies show that child-free people feel no regret

Jul 18 • Maria Cassano

I Have a Lot More in Common with YouTubers Than I Thought

The Ridgways shared what many of us secretly grieve

Jul 9 • Alice Cutler

Life Without Children Monthly Review and July Creative Prompt

How did the collision of truth and reality of never having kids impact you

Jul 1 • Ali Hall

June 2026

How Expecting One-Way Support From Women Without Kids to Mothers Is Anti-Village

Remember, to have a village, we must be a villager

Jun 27 • Ali Hall

Surviving Puppyhood: A Reckoning with Childfree by Choice

Did you know puppy blues are a thing?

Jun 18 • Monica Cardenas, PhD

Why Reform Wants to Reduce Financial Support For IVF While Increasing Taxes for the Childless

Spoiler: it's all about curtailing women

Jun 13 • Ali Hall

What It’s Like to Consider Conceiving a Child With Donor Eggs

I’m no longer thinking about my feelings, I’m thinking about theirs

Jun 9 • Charlie Brown

Life Without Children Monthly Review and June Prompt

Often, when we don’t have children, we have a complicated relationship with our bodies. Do you?

Jun 1 • Ali Hall

May 2026

Yeah, I’d Be a Great Mom — But I Wouldn’t Be a Happy One

Men on ‘Love is Blind’ still see motherhood as mandatory

May 28 • Maria Cassano

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