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Pine Tree Notes (November-December 2012), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff Nov 2012

Pine Tree Notes (November-December 2012), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Pine Tree Notes (Septemer-October 2012), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff Sep 2012

Pine Tree Notes (Septemer-October 2012), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Choosing To Be Childfree: Research On The Decision Not To Parent, Amy Blackstone, Mahala Dyer Stewart Sep 2012

Choosing To Be Childfree: Research On The Decision Not To Parent, Amy Blackstone, Mahala Dyer Stewart

Sociology School Faculty Scholarship

Decisions about whether to have or rear children, as well as perceptions of people who choose not to parent are linked to a variety of social processes and identities. We review literature from a variety of disciplines that focuses on voluntarily childless adults. Early research in this area, emerging in the 1970s, focused almost exclusively on heterosexual women and utilized a childless rather than a childfree framework. Later work saw a shift to a “childless-by-choice” or “childfree” framework, emphasizing that for some, not being parents is an active choice rather than an accident. While more recent research includes lesbian women …


Pine Tree Notes (March-April 2012), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff Mar 2012

Pine Tree Notes (March-April 2012), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Pine Tree Notes (Jan-Feb 2012), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff Jan 2012

Pine Tree Notes (Jan-Feb 2012), General Federation Of Women's Clubs - Maine Chapter Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.