Alysia Christiaen
Dolly Parton, Gloria Steinem, and the Child-Free Legacy Myth
Two women died this month with charities and movements to their names, and their obituaries still had room to mention what they didn't have.
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Alysia Christiaen
Child-Free Is Not a Debt to Be Repaid
A viral TikTok claims that because children are what "nature expects," you need a "damn good reason" not to have them. That framing treats parenthood as a debt and child-free people as the deviation that needs explaining. But the ability to have children is not an obligation to have them — and no one owes an explanation for a life built deliberately.
Alysia Christiaen
Child-Free Isn’t the Choice That Needs Explaining
Jennifer Lawrence recently flipped a familiar script: why do child-free people get grilled about their choice, while people who want kids rarely get asked if they're sure? This piece runs with that idea arguing that parenthood, not childlessness, is the decision that deserves real scrutiny, and that kids deserve to be wanted, not just expected.
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