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Childfree & Happy

Fri, 10/02/2009 - 13:05
Submitted by Carlin Ross

Meet Laura Scott.  She's 47, childless, and just wrote a book Two is Enough about the complex decision NOT to have a family.  While she's totally happy with her decision she's tired of people asking her when she's going to have a baby and tired of being called "selfish":

"I've had people ask: 'What's wrong? You're not too old.' Everybody assumes that if you're married, you've got to have children, especially because we both work with them at school. And if you don't, you have to explain yourself all the time.  Having children should be a choice, not an obligation. Yet many women I know have even stopped going to christenings or baby showers because they are sick of being emotionally bullied for not having children.  It's easier for men. Not feeling paternal isn't such a grave crime.

The Downside of Opting Out

Mon, 09/21/2009 - 13:49
Submitted by Carlin Ross

The Daily Beast has finally proven what I've known to be true - that career women who opted out of the labor market are bearing the brunt of the economic meltdown. 

I so remember that NY Times piece about the Opt-Out Revolution like it was yesterday.  It was this phenom where women with Ivy league educations and corner offices were "opting out" of the labor market to be soccer moms citing the stress of balancing work and family (and the fact that you're penalized for motherhood while your male counterparts are promoted for having the stability of a loving family, oh, and you still have to do 80% of the household chores).

Iron Chef Cat Cora & Girlfriend Both Pregnant

Tue, 03/10/2009 - 13:28
Submitted by Carlin Ross

I think this is the most romantic thing I've ever heard of ever.  Imagine your partner pregnant with you - understanding everything that you're feeling - and they're carrying each other's embryos *sigh*

Iron Chef America" star Cat Cora and her wife Jennifer Cora are both pregnant, she announced. Both are expecting boys, which will double their brood. They are already parents to older boys, Caje, 22 months and Zoran, 5, from the same donor as the two who are coming.

On her MySpace blog, Cat posted the following message:

"Iron Chef's Cat Cora has a bigger surprise than the unveiling of her secret ingredient on her hit Food Network show; She's expecting her third--and fourth--sons! "It's really crazy!" the chef, 41, said. Cat will give birth three months after her partner, Jennifer Cora, 37. "We decided that having them a year apart is harder than having kids as infants together," Cat says of their planned pregnancies. Their four children have the same sperm donor but Cat says," [Jennifer] carried my embryo and I carried hers. It's like surrogating, but obviously all of our kids are equal."