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15 days til deadline for 2015 Childfree Man/Woman of the Year nominations!
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15 days til deadline for 2015 Childfree Man/Woman of the Year nominations! July 01, 2015 | Registered: 12 years ago Posts: 87 |
Hi there, Laura Carroll, author of Families of Two and The Baby Matrix here.
Just 15 days left before the deadline to nominate the 2015 Childfree Man/Woman of Year!
As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, in 2013 a group of childfree authors and bloggers started August 1 as International Childfree Day. Backdrop:
In August 1973, the National Organization for Non-Parents, or NON (which later become the National Alliance for Optional Parenthood, or NAOP) celebrated Non-Parents Day–and they did in style. As NON at the time, it chose a Male National Non-Parent of the Year and a Female National Non-Parent of the Year. The winners: Stewart Mott, a 35 year old bachelor and philanthropist, and Mrs. Anna Silverman, a 25 year old teacher and co-author (with her husband Arthur) of The Case Against Having Children.
They they both rode down 5th Avenue in New York in a special open top cab with laurel leaf crowns, and were crowned “Non-Parent King and Queen†near the Plaza Hotel to call attention to that they had declared August 1, Non-Parents Day. NON – later NAOP – in its day did some great work to educate society that parenthood is optional.
Forty years later, we wanted to bring back this “Day†as an annual recognition of amazing childfree people and their lives, and as a wonderful way to foster the acceptance of the childfree choice in today’s society.
This is year 3 - if you know an amazing childfree person, nominate him or her here: http://internationalchildfreeday.com/about/
Winners will be announced on August 1, International Childfree Day!
Thank you! ~Laura
Just 15 days left before the deadline to nominate the 2015 Childfree Man/Woman of Year!
As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, in 2013 a group of childfree authors and bloggers started August 1 as International Childfree Day. Backdrop:
In August 1973, the National Organization for Non-Parents, or NON (which later become the National Alliance for Optional Parenthood, or NAOP) celebrated Non-Parents Day–and they did in style. As NON at the time, it chose a Male National Non-Parent of the Year and a Female National Non-Parent of the Year. The winners: Stewart Mott, a 35 year old bachelor and philanthropist, and Mrs. Anna Silverman, a 25 year old teacher and co-author (with her husband Arthur) of The Case Against Having Children.
They they both rode down 5th Avenue in New York in a special open top cab with laurel leaf crowns, and were crowned “Non-Parent King and Queen†near the Plaza Hotel to call attention to that they had declared August 1, Non-Parents Day. NON – later NAOP – in its day did some great work to educate society that parenthood is optional.
Forty years later, we wanted to bring back this “Day†as an annual recognition of amazing childfree people and their lives, and as a wonderful way to foster the acceptance of the childfree choice in today’s society.
This is year 3 - if you know an amazing childfree person, nominate him or her here: http://internationalchildfreeday.com/about/
Winners will be announced on August 1, International Childfree Day!
Thank you! ~Laura
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