Lisette Schuitemaker

An exploration of the self-fulfilling lives of people who, by chance or choice, have no children of their own. Childless Living investigates the life choices people make around having children and alternate ways of finding purpose in life. The book is based on a global survey and more than 50 in-depth interviews with childless and childfree women and men aged...

"What do Angela Merkel, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christine Lagarde, Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, JK Rowling and Beyoncé have in common?" was the headline in the English newspaper The Observer in 2014. "Other than riding high in Forbes list of the world’s most powerful women," journalist Tracy McVeigh wrote in answer to her own question, "they are also all firstborn children...