Childlessness Archives

Childlessness

The Case Against Children

by Elizabeth Barber,

Among the antinatalists

False Labor

by Lena Dunham,

Giving up on motherhood

The Mother of All Questions

by Rebecca Solnit,

I gave a talk on Virginia Woolf a few years ago. During the question-and-answer period that followed it, the subject that seemed to most interest a number of people was…

Notes on Some Twentieth-Century Writers

by Rivka Galchen,

Flannery O’Connor: No children. Eudora Welty: No children. One children’s book. Katherine Anne Porter: No children, many miscarriages. Hilary Mantel, Janet Frame, Willa Cather, Jane Bowles, Patricia Highsmith, Elizabeth Bishop,…

Missing children

by Bob Shacochis,

One couple's anguished attempt to conceive

Why I’m childless

by John Simon,

Too considerate

Art by George Du Maurier,

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