Parenthood. – Pacifica Radio Archives

National organization for non-parents / produced by Barbara Spark.

Discussion of the support group for people who have chosen not to have children.

August 24, 2025

With child / Phyllis Chesler interviewed by Anita Frankel

Phyllis Chesler, feminist and author of “Woman and madness,” “Women, money, and power,” and “About men,” speaks with Anita Frankel of KPFK about her new book “With child: a diary of motherhood” (Crowell, 1979), a record of pregnancy and childbirth which is as much about the birth of a mother as it is about the…

August 24, 2025

Up against the clock : career women speak out about the choice to have children / Norma Wikler interviewed by Ruth Ziony

Norma Wikler (1942-2002) is interviewed about her new book by Ruth Ziony. The title of the book is Up against the clock : career women speak on the choice to have children, co-authored with Marilyn Fabe (New York: Random House, 1979). The book deals with women over the age of thirty-five opting to have children…

August 24, 2025

To have? Or not to have?…a child / Elaine Douglass and Bonnie Bellow.

Bonnie Bellow and Elaine Douglass discuss the decision to have children or not, including Ms. Douglass’s recent decision to undergo voluntary sterilization. Included is an interview with Dr. Robert Neuwirth, head of gynecological endoscopy at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, who, along with Dr. Melvin Cohen of Chicago pioneered laparoscopic and hysteroscopic sterilization procedures.

August 24, 2025