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Volume 20
Issue 7
September 2009

 

Re: choosing to be childfree; seemed a shame that men and fathers were as noticeably absent from this piece

  • Men absent as usual

  • by

  • Tom Cowan
  • Re choosing to be childfree; seemed a shame that men and fathers were as noticeably absent from this piece as they increasingly seem to be in children’s lives... at the risk of confirming that men are picky and vindictive I counted 36 woman/women, one man, one partner and one couple in the article!
     


  • Tom Cowan, MBACP