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Laura Carroll is an accomplished communicator and popular public speaker, author, and consultant on human behavior. She has her Master’s in Industrial Psychology, and has been a successful business consultant and seminar leader for the past fifteen years. She has provided lectures and symposiums on personal development skills, and her expertise includes conflict resolution, career development, layoff survival, improving management skills and leadership styles. She also has extensive experience in designing and writing educational programs, employee screening and selection materials, and designs employee motivational programs.
Laura’s efforts in counseling employees who are dealing with the trauma of a layoff resulted in the creation of a book, titled, Finding Fulfillment from the Inside Out: How to Unravel the Real You and Discover Your Purpose in Life. She has also been published in several major consumer and trade magazines.
Laura wrote Families of Two because she wanted to learn more about successful longtime married couples who did not have children by choice, to aid those who are deciding whether or not to have children, and to address the many assumptions and misconceptions often made about those who decide to be childfree. Laura and her husband of 12 years live in Oregon and have no children by choice.
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In the introduction to Families of Two: Interviews with Happily Married
Couples without Children by Choice, author Laura Carroll describes her role
as that of mid-wife, delivering the stories of the couples she interviewed to
the printed page. Recently, I had the opportunity to ask Laura about her book,
the couples she interviewed, and childfree marriage.
What inspired you to write this book?
A couple of years ago my husband and I wanted to find out about couples who had
made the same choice as we did, and who had been married for awhile. We wanted
to learn about lifelong marriages that did not include parenthood. When I could
not find a book that addressed this topic directly, as a writer I decided to go
find the couples myself!
Why is this topic important now?
The number of childfree couples is increasing. An estimated 14% of couples do
not have children today, and this number is expected to increase to 20%, or to 1
in 5 couples by the year 2010. In 1975, 1 in 10 women did not have children.
Today it is 1 in 5. The Census researchers I have talked to indicate that
although they do not directly track the choice factor, they believe the 1 in 5
today more often reflects the choice not to have children, given ...
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