Bibliography
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- A Baby?...Maybe: A Guide to Making the Most Fateful Decision of Your Life (ISBN 978-0672520969), Elizabeth M. Whelan (New York: Bobbs-Merrill 1975)
- Baby Not on Board: A Celebration of Life Without Kids (ISBN 978-0811847971), Jennifer L. Shawne
- Baby Proof (ISBN 978-0312348649), a novel by Emily Giffin
- Bearing Life: Women's Writings on Childlessness (ISBN 978-1558612365), Rochelle Ratner editor
- Beyond Conception: Our Children's Children (ISBN 978-0876450444 ISBN 978-1553952282), Martha Kent Willing-Denniston (Boston: Gambit 1971)
- Beyond Motherhood: choosing a life without children (ISBN 978-0671793449), Jeanne Safer (1996. New York: Pocketbooks. )
- Cheerfully Childless: The Humor Book for Those Who Hesitate to Procreate (ISBN 978-0971162709), Ellen Metter & Loretta Gomez, a cartoon-filled humour book http://www.cheerfullychildless.com
- Childfree After Infertility: Moving from Childlessness to a Joyous Life (ISBN 978-0595274383), Heather Wardell, published 2003, which espouses the embracing of the childfree philosophy by couples who are medically infertile. Toronto, http://childfree.ca/mybook.html
- Childfree and Loving It! (ISBN 978-1904132639), Nicki DeFago, published 2005, which deals humorously with the comments childfree people get and challenges the stigma attached to the choice to remain CF. First such book written from a UK viewpoint.
- Childfree and Sterilized: Women's Decisions and Medical Responses (ISBN 978-0304337477), Annily Campbell, published 1999, which describes the experiences of adult childfree women seeking sterilization in the UK.
- Childfree Zone, Susan J. and David Moore, published 2000. An Australian book that contains the experiences and opinions of over 80 child-free people aged between 22 and 60. It is not an academic study or statistical analysis, but a practical, readable and often amusing discussion of the decision to remain child-free. See http://childfree.com.au
- Childless by Choice (ISBN 0409874744), Jean E. Veevers (1980. Toronto: Butterworth & Company. 1975. Gage Educational Publishers)
- Childless by Choice: A Feminist Anthology (ISBN 978-0939821037), Irene Reti editor
- Childless by Choice: Love Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, Laura Scott http://www.childlessbychoiceproject.com/
- Childless by Choice (ISBN 978-0385158459), Marian Faux (Garden City NY: Doubleday 1984)
- Childlessness Transformed: stories of alternative parenting. (ISBN 978-0934747202), Jane English ed. (1989. Quality Paperbacks)
- Children, to Have or Have Not?: a guide to making and living with your decision (ISBN 978-0936602394), Diane C. Elvenstar (1982. New York: Ballantine Books. )
- Families of Two: Interviews with Happily Married Couples without children by choice (ISBN 978-0738822624), Laura Carroll, 2005. Interviews of fifteen childfree couples explain the decreased desire to bring children into the world. http://www.aimpress.com/childless.htm
- How to Kill Population (ISBN 0664249337), Edward Pohlman (Philadelphia: Westminster 1971)
- Human Slices (ISBN 0738844462), Gloria Bowman
- I'm Okay You're a Brat: Setting the Priorities Straight and Freeing You from the Guilt and Mad Myths of Parenthood (ISBN 1-58063-139-8), Susan Jeffers (Los Angeles CA: Renaissance Books 1999) http://www.susanjeffers.com
- I Hate Other People's Kids (ISBN 978-1416909880), by Adrianne Frost
- Kindervrij Verklaard (ISBN 0-646-45361-0), Marije Feddema and Larissa van Berchum, published 2005. This first-ever childfreedom book published in Dutch. Discusses the definition of the term childfreedom, pioneers and history, the taboo and prejudices, advantages and disadvantages, motivations, lifestyle and views on the future, and contraception and sterilization methods.
- Marriage Without Children. Men and women tell what it is like to be childless by choice or chance, Diana Burgwyn, Harper & Row NY 1981
- Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Everything and Why We Pretend It Doesn't (ISBN 978-1565844834), Susan Maushart
- Maybe One (ISBN 1-86230-004-6), Bill McKibben, published 1999, which describes the environmental impact of having children. While the book advocates one-child families, there is an obvious unspoken case for having no children.
- Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women (ISBN 978-0743260466), Susan J. Douglas, Meredith W. Michaels
- Mother's Day is Over (ISBN 0877958645), Shirley L. Radl (New York: Charterhouse 1973)
- Never to Be a Mother (ISBN 0062500791), Linda Hunt Anton (San Francisco HarperSanFrancisco 1992)
- No Kidding (ISBN 978-0595130351), Wendy Tokunaga
- One Child by Choice (ISBN 0136346006), Sharryl Hawke & David Knox (Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall 1977)
- Power and Decision: the social control of reproduction (ISBN 978-0674695337), Gita Sen & Rachel C. Snow (1994. Boston: Harvard University Press. )
- Pride and Joy: The Lives and Passions of Women Without Children (ISBN 978-1885223821), Terri Casey (Hillsboro OR: BeyondWords Publishing 1998)
- Pronatalism: The Myth of Mom & Apple Pie (ISBN 978-0815203551), Ellen Peck & Judith Senderowitz editors (New York: Crowell 1974)
- Reconceiving Women: Separating Motherhood from Female Identity (ISBN 978-0898620160) published 1993 by Mardy S. Ireland PhD, a clinical psychologist, which explains why there is so much societal pressure to raise children and proposes new ways of theorizing female identity, beyond that of mother and how it can be viewed as an opportunity.
- Sweet Grapes: How to Stop Being Infertile and Start Living Again (ISBN 0-944934-23-4), Michael and Jean Carter (Indianapolis: Perspectives Press revised 1997)
- The Baby Boon: How Family-Friendly America Cheats the Childless (ISBN 978-0684863030), Elinor Burkett, published 2000, which outlines a case against many privileges granted to parents (as opposed to non-parents).
- The Baby Decision: How to Make the Most Important Decision of Your Life (ISBN 0-89256-138-6), Merle Bombardieri (New York: Rawson Wade Publishers 1981)
- The Baby Trap (ISBN 978-0523009032), Ellen Peck (New York: Bernard Geis 1971)
- The Case Against Having Children (ISBN 0679502424), Anna & Arnold Silverman (New York: McKay 1971)
- The Childfree Alternative (ISBN 978-0828903684), Kate Harper (Brattleboro VT: Stephen Green Press 1980)
- The Childless Marriage: an exploratory study of couples who do not want children (ISBN 978-0422600705), Elaine Campbell (1985. London; New York: Tavistock. )
- The Childless Revolution (ISBN 978-0738206745), Madelyn Cain, published 2002, which describes the experiences of childless and childfree women, and their similarities and differences.
- The Chosen Lives of Childfree Men (ISBN 0-89789-598-3) Patricia W. Lunneborg, Marilyn Mei-Ying Chi, Clara C. Park, published 1999. Based on interviews with 30 American and British men, challenges the stereotype that men without children are immature, selfish, and irresponsible. Finds nine main types, including workaholics, lifelong learners, early retirees, stress reducers, and men avoiding the mistakes of their parents. Argues that men should be active participants in childbearing decisions.
- The Effect of Children on Parents (ISBN 978-0789008558), Anne-Marie Ambert (New York: Haworth Press 1992)
- The Future of Motherhood (ISBN 978-0140040401), Jessie Bernard (New York: Dial Press 1974)
- The Joys and Sorrows of Parenthood (ISBN 978-0873181174), Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (New York: Scribners 1973)
- The Left Hand of the Electron (ISBN 978-0385043458), Isaac Asimov (Doubleday, April 1972) devotes two full chapters (Stop, But How?) to the social and ecological issues surrounding overpopulation. The remainder of the book is on unrelated topics.
- The Parenthood Decision (ISBN 978-0385489805), Beverly Engel
- The Parent Test: How to Measure and Develop Your Talent for Parenthood (ISBN 978-0399120305), Ellen Peck & Dr. William Granzig (New York: Putnam 1978)
- The Population Bomb (ISBN 978-1568495873), Paul Ehrlich (New York: Ballantine 1968)
- The Psychology of Birth Planning (ISBN 1135502072), Edward Pohlman (Cambridge MA: Schenkman 1969)
- The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (ISBN 978-0520221550), Nancy Chodorow (Berkeley CA: U of California Press 1978)
- Unwomanly Conduct: The Challenges of Intentional Childlessness (ISBN 978-0415906784), Carolyn M. Morell (1994. New York: Routledge. )
- Wanting a Child (ISBN 978-0374525941), Jill Bialosky & Helen Schulman editors (New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1998)
- Why Children? (ISBN 0156963620), Stephanie Dowrick & Sibyl Grundberg editors (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1980)
- Why Don't You Have Kids? Living a Full Life without Parenthood (ISBN 978-0821748534), Leslie Lafayette, published 1995, an early treatise on the subject of modern-day childfreedom by the woman who founded the Childfree Network in 1992.
- Will You Be Mother?: women who choose to say no (ISBN 978-0814712450), Jane Bartlett (1994. London: Virago Press )
- Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness (ISBN 0-415-92493-6), Laurie Lisle, published 1996, which probes some of the myths and the stereotypes that surround non-mothers.
- Women Without Children: how to live your choice (ISBN 0-882-47677-7), Barbara Hawkins (1984. Sarasota CA, R & E Publishers)
- Women Without Children: the reasons the rewards the regrets (ISBN 978-1558505971), Susan Schneider Lang
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