Check out my bio, site, including highlights of 20+ years in the media and on podcasts, #childfree writings library since 2009, my #LiveTrueBooks collection and more! lauracarroll.com

Merry Xmas and Happy 71st birthday to Annie Lennox! "Annie’s journey reflects authenticity, strength, and purpose. She doesn’t just perform — she speaks truth through music." ~Hollywood Vibes. And here's to her for rejecting cosmetic procedures, choosing to age naturally.

"When Bette Midler went on the show, she crooned to the host...adding bespoke lyrics to 'Wind Beneath My Wings': 'You never kissed the orange assssssss.'” 👏 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...

Bringing this back around, as it has a range of recent research findings from Pew Research Center on people who don’t have children. lauracarroll.com/pew-research...

Check it out! 👇

2025 is Year 10 of my annual #Childfree Trending! lauracarroll.com/2025-childfr...

These kinds of overpasses are so important to reconnect habitat areas so wildlife can safely cross! www.9news.com/article/life...

RIP, ten years ago on December 8th. Also check out my review of the book, On Beauty, an ode to him, one of the world’s greatest conservation activists: lauracarroll.com/book-review/... www.tompkinsconservation.org/news/2025/12...

This article is such an example of how religious journalism pushes #pronatalist Myths, starting with how the pub, World, describes itself as producing "sound journalism, grounded in facts and biblical truth." This piece is Not grounded in facts & truths... wng.org/opinions/chi... #TheBabyMatrix

Check out my 2025 #Childfree Trending post! lauracarroll.com/2025-childfr...

Happy to see more discussion of medical paternalism and there seems to be more serious efforts to update industry practice standards to avoid it. Will docs follow it? We'll see. If they do, it could be a positive sign that more people are seeing past #TheBabyMatrix. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/w...

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"To grow support for #rewilding, we must reach beyond our usual circles...to the large portion of people who care about the environment, but don’t identify themselves as environmentalists...holds the key to mainstreaming rewilding and nature recovery." globalrewilding.earth/beyond-the-e...

Recommend two articles on a tragic effect of #pronatalist influence: the dark world of surrogacy. www.wsj.com/us-news/chin... 1/2

Love seeing international pieces about the #childfree life, this one in The National News, a UAE state-owned English-language newspaper published in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/20...

Excellent summary of how "today’s great concern about low birth rates is unwarranted" and African #population growth and migration issues: overpopulation-project.com/why-is-afric...

Today, this 'Peaceful Pill' "remains hypothetical." Please, filmmakers do your "homework and not use fictitious plot devices."

Re a strategy of needing anti-abortion Democrats to open the coalition, yes, "This is so many levels of wrong." www.jezebel.com/only-an-idio... #reprorights

Love this article about Irie Love and her #childfree choice! She is part of #ASpecialSisterhood of fascinating women now and from history who never had children. Check out the 100 more I highlight in my book: amzn.to/4oMv0ls k24.digital/entertainmen...

Altho "the abortion-providing community/women...have developed very creative modes of resistance,” Note:for anti-abortion lawmakers/advocates it was "never just about overturning Roe v. Wade"-it's "about really trying to stop all abortions anywhere, any way they can.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

In your down time during the holidays, have a listen to this anthology of #Rewilding Institute's podcasts. Activists, thinkers, academics, artists, on-the-ground rewilders talk across geographies, highlight jaguars, catamounts, beavers, wolves, grizzlies and more: rewilding.org/a-rewilding-...

Spot on, and not just for Finland: "As Finland debates how to 'fix' its demographics, the #childfree are demanding a difft question: why does a modern, wealthy society still run a 20th-century Ponzi scheme that depends on endless #population growth?" Instead... uzalendonews.co.ke/childless-an... 1/2

Love seeing #childfree articles like this coming out in Vogue Arabia! www.voguearabia.com/article/hala...

Next, come to the US!

Yes: “'The fertility rate is falling, and that’s not a failure,' Dr. Zigmont says. 'It’s a signal that we must design systems that work without infinite #population growth.'” www.cbs42.com/business/pre...

Interesting discussion on antinatalism in Japan. However, Not to be read that being #childfree is synonymous with being antinatalist! There are many reasons pple choose no kids, and antinatalist sentiments is only one, and not common at that. www.sapiens.org/culture/japa...

Excellent essay, and I especially appreciate how it gets into the deeper psychological roots of why denial continues to persist: sundayguardianlive.com/feature/one-... #overpopulation

Now here is a great idea: Instead of Black Friday consumption, "let’s mark the post-Thanksgiving date as Extinction Friday" ~ don't consume, as an act of recognition of the impacts consumption has on the world and all beings on it. therevelator.org/extinction-f...

Nice tips on the practice of gratitude: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... In this vein, thank you to all my followers here, my site, lauracarroll.com and all social channels going back as far as the year 2000! 🙏

Jay Zigmont talking #childfree and moving towards societal values and systems based on creating a sustainable economy 👍 www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

I like to bring this post back around at Thanksgiving time : ) lauracarroll.com/thanksgiving...

👉"It is the weather pattern of a man who fears the truth and fears the women who speak it aloud."

Young men are listening—keep speaking out! https://bit.ly/3JB6fKJ

“I don’t want kids, it’s not a chip I have” is another way to say the desire to have children is not innate. If it was, there would be no need for the social & cultural pressures to have kids. If it was, all of us would feel it. And we don't. www.aol.com/articles/whi... #pronatalism #TheBayMatrix

Much to discuss on the topic of female identity w/o motherhood. E.g., from #TheBabyMatrix: "Since the 1970s, more women have been choosing not to make motherhood part of their identity. [Psychologist Mardy] Ireland claims that 'these women are giving birth to..." 1/2 whatsthejam.com/lifestyle/ch...

Now here is a great idea: Instead of Black Friday consumption, "let’s mark the post-Thanksgiving date as Extinction Friday" ~ don't consume, as an act of recognition of the impacts consumption has on the world and all beings on it. therevelator.org/extinction-f...

Highly recommend. Many truths about the revolution I did not know, and it's so relevant to today's struggle for justice and democracy. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

This article is an example of the still-existing pressure to conform to #pronatalist assumpions we have been fed for generations, e.g.,you'll regret not having kids, who will take care of you when you are old, etc. But ~ speaks to seeing thru #TheBabyMatrix: www.newsweek.com/woman-39-sha... 1/2

"For years, #pronatalist policy in the US has been largely conservative" ~ No. It has provided incentives for people to have children no matter their political position. So have workplace policies, which are inequitable, favoring those with children, not those w/o. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...

Check out my conversation with Lawrence Anton, where we discuss "pronatalist biases embedded in institutions & everyday interactions, examining their historical roots.The conversation delves into the impact of these pressures on individuals and broader social trends." www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AND...

To try and have a bio baby at all costs~ this too, is #pronatalism. Gift link: www.wsj.com/health/ferti...

@popnbalance.bsky.social's Nandita Bajaj in the new film, Greenwashed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWU... #overpopulation

Thank you, @guttmacher.org for this analysis that "draws on findings from leading Guttmacher research projects to identify recent trends in abortion and contraceptive access and offers policy recommendations informed by that evidence." www.guttmacher.org/2025/11/act-...

So the tech elite want perfect babies: www.wsj.com/tech/biotech... MAHA wants a return to 'natural family planning': www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u... Both=egs of facets of today's #pronatalism, w/same historical bedrock of power strucutres pushing the idolization of reproduction and birth.

What happened, indeed, @nytimes! Have editors lost it, pub'ing this kind of sh*t? Vanity Fair rebuttal is worth the read, including: "Those with power are afraid to lose it, and look to shift blame on to those who are encroaching on their space—earned or not..." 1/2

No, #pronatalism is Not Christian Nationalism in disguise. It is only a slice. It is a system of beliefs that has been with us for generations that is pro-birth, encourages repro, and exhalts the role of phood. It is filled with myths societies still believe... nwlc.org/pronatalism-...

This very cool thing happening today: "What you're about to witness is more than just a sky event — it’s a cosmic reunion that only happens once in a long while. The Moon will pass close to the Pleiades — a sparkling cluster known as 'The Seven Sisters.'” ~ Bloom Aura

"For the first time since 2019, there is a repro freedom trifecta in Virginia"! ~ Reproductive Freedom For All (Formerly NARAL)

As always, so well said, Nandita!

Estate planning for those of us with no kids is different, but just as important to put in place so wishes are honored, and making it easy for the chosen Trustee. www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/11/...