World Childless Week

Adoption with The Dave Thomas Foundation’s CEO Rita Soronen

The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is the only public nonprofit charity in the United States that is focused exclusively on foster care adoption. Through its signature program, Wendy’s Wonderful Kids®, the Foundation funds adoption professionals, known as recruiters, who are dedicated to finding loving, permanent homes for children waiting in foster care. The Foundation works…

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Laura Scott – The Childless by Choice Project

Laura S. Scott, is the happily childfree author of Two Is Enough and Producer of The Childless by Choice Project documentary. Which is a research project, a book, and a documentary that explores the motives and the decision-making process behind the choice to remain childfree. Having conducted a survey of almost 200 childless by choice…

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Robin Hadley Investigating the Complexities of Male Childlessness

Robin Hadley a world expert on male childlessness and ageing, a researcher, speaker, teacher, and writer.  Robin’s area of research concerns the impact of male involuntary childlessness across the lifecourse. Also, having completed a Project Titled: Survey Of Men And Women’s Feelings Around Parenthood And Childlessness Which Examines If Childlessness Effected the Happiness of Older People, their Wellbeing,…

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Yvonne John Dreaming of a Life Unlived – A Woman of Color’s Infertility Journey

Yvonne John is the author of Dreaming of a Life Unlived As a woman of color she knows only too well the experience of being silenced to the point of being too ashamed to say that I am childless but now Yvonne can celebrate the woman that she has become through the power of owning her…

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Childless Not By Choice, A Journey of Infertility – Stephanie Phillips, World Childless Week Founder

Stephanie was inspired to start World Childless Week after recognizing the need for a global campaign that supports those who are childless not by choice. She admins several Facebook groups including Childless Path To Acceptance for those past the point of trying to conceive. Stephanie is also writing a self-help book about being childless not…

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Love Again, Live Again. Don’t Shut The Door!

According to Alfred Lord Tennyson, “it’s better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all”. But what do you do when you have loved and been hurt? What do you do when you have loved and been disappointed? What do you do when you have loved, given your best to the…

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