Our goal is to better understand the lives of childfree people through research. We hope to make research transparent, interesting, and relatable. We aim to address important issues within the childfree community,
share childfree research and news update, and engage with the wider community in a meaningful way.
This project is being run by Sara Glass, a Ph.D. student in the department of psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is interested in the lives and relationships of childfree people and the stigmas surrounding being childfree.
She hopes to form her career around studying why people are childfree, as well as childfree people’s identities, relationships, and how people generally think about childfreeness. More and more people are choosing to not have children, but why?
What motivates people to be childfree? How does being childfree impact people’s lives, relationships, and how does it interact with other identities people have? Who are these childfree people anyway? Sara hopes to use her research to try to answer these questions and shed light on the dynamic and complex lives of the childfree.
If you want to help us better understand childfree people, please check out our current studies on the Participate page!
You don’t have to be childfree to participate! No matter who you are, your opinion is still important to us. In some of our studies, we’re interested in how childfree people are different than (or the same as) everyone else, so we need some of that “everyone else” to take our surveys too!