When I first saw the title of Jen Kirkman's new book, I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids, I sighed. On the upside, I loved the idea that there was a new book out by a great female comedian...

After seeing Jonathan Last in the media this week talking about his new book, What to Expect When No One Is Expecting, if you find yourself being swayed by his reasons why we need to have to more babies to sustain our economic...

This month marks the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling, and TIME's recent article, "What Choice? Abortion-rights activists won an epic victory in Roe v Wade. They've been losing every since" makes some disturbing points. Here are a few stand outs:

"In 2011,...

First, let me say I am a fan of David Brooks' political commentary. But I can't always say this about his thinking on sociological issues. Take his recent op-ed, "The Age of Possibility" in The New York Times.

He writes that we're in an "age of possibility,"...

First, hats off to reproductive rights supporters who won last night!

If we had elected a "Personhood President," there would be cause for great concern. While personhood and abortion were hot issues during the campaign, one aspect related to both that didn't seem to come up like it could...

As Election Day approaches, Roe v Wade remains the law of the land, but with a Republican victory and an aging Supreme Court, this law may very well be in jeopardy. As President Barack Obama said on August 8th in Denver, "The next president could tip the balance...

The recent piece in The Atlantic, "Not Wanting Kids Is Entirely Normal" says what the childfree have been trying to get the masses to understand for awhile now. It's also refreshing that author Jessica Valenti is a mother herself.

We've come a long way from just a...

In the recent op-ed piece, "Family Well-Being Tied to Men's Work Lives," Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of the big buzz-generating Atlantic article, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," and Joan Williams, Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Hastings College of the Law,...

On Tuesday, the 2012 We Believe in America Republican Platform was approved. It supports a human life amendment to the Constitution, which would ban all abortions, even in the case of incest and rape. The problem with this part of the platform is that presidential candidate Mitt...

What kind of story do we see in the news just about every day? Incidents of child abuse. When it comes to child abuse, the statistics in the United States are unnerving. According to the Department of Health and Human...

Birth rates may be plummeting in these economic times, but it's not stopping a phenomenon that happens to women in particular -- the time that comes in every woman's life when an uncontrollable "urge" comes over her and she feels a calling from deep within to become a...

Keli Goff hits the nail on the head in her post "Why Women Shouldn't Want To Have it All" when she makes the point that for all the solutions Anne-Marie Slaughter lays out as necessary for more women to be able to "have it all," "she...