Super Happy Fun America’s recent “straight pride” parade in Boston has come and gone—but the ideology that inspired it lingers, and it is not limited to the parade’s homophobia.
Author: Amy Blackstone
Amy Blackstone is professor in Sociology at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, where she studies the childfree choice, civic engagement and workplace harassment. Her book Childfree by Choice comes out in June.
More Children Won’t Make America Great—But Feminist Policies Supporting Families Will
What to do about a declining birth rate? Banning abortion, doing away with sex ed, and making birth control difficult to access is one approach. But stripping women of their reproductive autonomy is the very worst response to population concerns.
What Choice Means to Childfree Women
Women, children and communities thrive when parenthood is a choice that is made freely, and not forcibly.