Title
Confessions of a Childfree Woman: A Life Spent Swimming Against the Mainstream - Paperback
by Marcia Drut-Davis (Author)
After declaring on 60 Minutes her desire to never have children, Marcia Drut-Davis was fired from her teaching job and began receiving death threats from outraged Americans. Now, in her stirring new memoir Confessions of a Childfree Woman, Drut-Davis tells the story behind that national TV appearance and recounts the painful aftermath.Along the way, Drut-Davis exposes and explores our culture's rampant pronatalism and the stigma we continue to attach to childless women. By taking us deep into her own life and the emotions-positive and negative-surrounding her bold choice, Drut-Davis lays bare our society's myth that true fulfillment and happiness can come only through procreation.Reflecting on her 70 years, Drut-Davis takes a fair look at what she's lost by not having children, but her focus always returns to all she has gained: a life lived with no regrets.
Author Biography
Marcia Drut-Davis, B.S., M.S. in TESOL, is an outspoken advocate for parenting choices and past chapter president of the National Organization for Non-Parents. Prior to getting her master's degree at the age of 50, she taught common branch subjects in New York, California and Michigan. Her peers recognized her abilities, nominating her for the Walt Disney Company's American Teacher Awards in 1998. In 2000, she retired to Florida where she taught future teachers in the College of Education at Florida Atlantic University. Presently, she volunteers teaching English and literacy in a local library and is a bimonthly writer for the Pineapple Post in Jensen Beach. She lives with her husband Jim and a rescued 5-pound Chihuahua.
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by Marcia Drut-Davis (Author)
After declaring on 60 Minutes her desire to never have children, Marcia Drut-Davis was fired from her teaching job and began receiving death threats from outraged Americans. Now, in her stirring new memoir Confessions of a Childfree Woman, Drut-Davis tells the story behind that national TV appearance and recounts the painful aftermath.Along the way, Drut-Davis exposes and explores our culture's rampant pronatalism and the stigma we continue to attach to childless women. By taking us deep into her own life and the emotions-positive and negative-surrounding her bold choice, Drut-Davis lays bare our society's myth that true fulfillment and happiness can come only through procreation.Reflecting on her 70 years, Drut-Davis takes a fair look at what she's lost by not having children, but her focus always returns to all she has gained: a life lived with no regrets.
Author Biography
Marcia Drut-Davis, B.S., M.S. in TESOL, is an outspoken advocate for parenting choices and past chapter president of the National Organization for Non-Parents. Prior to getting her master's degree at the age of 50, she taught common branch subjects in New York, California and Michigan. Her peers recognized her abilities, nominating her for the Walt Disney Company's American Teacher Awards in 1998. In 2000, she retired to Florida where she taught future teachers in the College of Education at Florida Atlantic University. Presently, she volunteers teaching English and literacy in a local library and is a bimonthly writer for the Pineapple Post in Jensen Beach. She lives with her husband Jim and a rescued 5-pound Chihuahua.
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