List: Childlessness & Fertility | Curated by Y.L. Wolfe

Sep 23, 2024
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Childlessness & Fertility
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Liberty
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Y.L. Wolfe
How Single Women Are Finding Their Way to Motherhood with a Different Kind of PartnerNo more settling with unhappy relationships just to have a co-parent
Sep 22, 2024
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Sep 22, 2024
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Liberty
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Why You Can’t Grieve Your Childlessness Until Just the Right MomentThere’s a timeline that must be followed
Dec 17, 2021
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Dec 17, 2021
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Liberty
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Y.L. Wolfe
Why We Hate Childfree WomenTheir very existence is a threat to our systems of power
Dec 6, 2021
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Dec 6, 2021
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Liberty
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Y.L. Wolfe
Moms vs. Aunts: A Social Media SmackdownCan we stop with the pronatalist propaganda, please?
Jul 14, 2021
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Jul 14, 2021
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Publishous
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Y.L. Wolfe
What It’s Like to Date Fathers When You’re Not a MotherAll the secret thoughts I’m too embarrassed to reveal
Jun 28, 2021
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Jun 28, 2021
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Liberty
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Y.L. Wolfe
Asking Some Hard Questions About Mother’s DayDoes this holiday really celebrate motherhood and honor women?
May 9, 2021
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May 9, 2021
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Liberty
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Y.L. Wolfe
Celebrating Maternal Love Even When You’re Not a MotherYou can bestow the gift of motherly love onto the world whether you have children or not
May 5, 2021
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May 5, 2021
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Fearless She Wrote
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Y.L. Wolfe
The Strange Nuances of Dating as a Childless WomanThe good, the bad, and all the gray areas
Mar 22, 2021
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Mar 22, 2021
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Liberty
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Y.L. Wolfe
A Letter to My Beloved NephewThe person I love most in the world…
Sep 5, 2020
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Sep 5, 2020
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Curious
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Y.L. Wolfe
What to Expect When You Might Never Be ExpectingWhen you realize that life can be just as fulfilling and adventurous without becoming a mother…
Aug 12, 2020
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Aug 12, 2020
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Is It Too Late for Motherhood?At 44, I’m still unsure what to do
Aug 9, 2020
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Aug 9, 2020
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Liberty
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Does Being Single and Childless Mean I Haven’t Grown as a Person?The myths that we tell about women who lead non-traditional lives.
May 27, 2020
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May 27, 2020
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Liberty
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I Don’t Have Kids — But I’m Busy, TooThe subtle ways our culture invalidates the lives of women who don’t have children
May 21, 2020
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May 21, 2020
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Liberty
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Y.L. Wolfe
I Hate Mother’s DayAnd I finally have the courage to admit it
May 6, 2020
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May 6, 2020
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Wilder
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Y.L. Wolfe
Story-Keeping for My GrandauntsPassing on the stories of my female relatives who did not have children.
Mar 2, 2020
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Mar 2, 2020
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Fearless She Wrote
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Y.L. Wolfe
Why Even Feminists Don’t Want to Talk About ChildlessnessIt’s time we made room in the cultural conversation for the growing number of women who don’t become mothers.
Feb 10, 2020
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Feb 10, 2020
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Liberty
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What to Do When You’re Struggling to Find Peace in ChildlessnessThere are many ways to experience motherhood.
Jan 2, 2020
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Jan 2, 2020
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Wilder
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Y.L. Wolfe
The Promise in Every PeriodApproaching the end of my menstrual cycle with hope and curiosity.
Dec 12, 2019
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Dec 12, 2019
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Liberty
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Y.L. Wolfe
The Most Important Question We Should Ask Before Becoming MothersHint: It has nothing to do with how we would raise a child.
Nov 3, 2019
Nov 3, 2019
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Candour
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Am I Selfish Because I Don’t Have Children?How one woman’s accusation that I wasn’t doing my part changed my perspective.
Oct 31, 2019
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Oct 31, 2019
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