“…Kate Kaufmann is fascinated by how those who don’t have children craft their lives. There are no navigation charts for life outside the mainstream of motherhood. Or fatherhood, for that matter.<\/p>\n
Kate got her first inkling how different life as a non-mom can be after she and her former husband abandoned infertility treatments, quit their corporate jobs, and moved from a suburb in an excellent school district to a rural community to raise sheep. Everyone in the country seemed to have kids. So began her quest for identity as a non-mom in a culture high on family.<\/p>\n
Since 2012 Kate has talked intimately with hundreds of North American women who don’t have children, ranging in age from twenty-four to ninety-one. She’s relentless in her search for pertinent data about not having kids in both the academic and popular press. Kate has also had the privilege of speaking about the childfree and childless with organizations such as AARP, the Oregon Community Foundation, and several colleges, universities, and retirement communities.<\/p>\n
Kate has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, an M.A. in Management, and a B.A. in Psychology, as well as professional background in corporate staffing, training, and consulting. She’s lived in various urban, suburban, rural, and coastal communities and currently calls Portland, Oregon home. Kate is proud of knowing how to drive a tractor…”<\/p>\n
She is the also the author of ” Do you have kids? Life when the answer is no<\/em><\/a>“.<\/p>\n As tow ambassadors of the World Childless Week, we are discussing on the theme of Embr<\/em>acing the Identity of One-Ness… Even Though It Sometimes Sucks <\/em> for the day dedicated to Childlessness and Sexual Intimacy<\/a> during World Childless Week.<\/p>\n Kate Kaufmann<\/a>, author and speaker<\/p>\n Catherine-Emmanuelle Delisle<\/p>\n TRA, Therapist for Relationship Assistance \u2122 and founder of femmesansenfant.com<\/p>\n …Kate Kaufmann est fascin\u00e9e par la fa\u00e7on dont ceux qui n’ont pas d’enfants construisent leur vie. Il n’existe pas de cartes de navigation pour la vie en dehors du courant dominant de la maternit\u00e9. Ou de la paternit\u00e9, d’ailleurs.<\/p>\n Kate a eu une premi\u00e8re impression de la diff\u00e9rence que peut repr\u00e9senter la vie d’une non-m\u00e8re apr\u00e8s que son ancien mari et elle ont abandonn\u00e9 les traitements contre l’infertilit\u00e9, quitt\u00e9 leur emploi dans une entreprise et d\u00e9m\u00e9nag\u00e9 d’une banlieue dans un excellent district scolaire vers une communaut\u00e9 rurale pour \u00e9lever des moutons. Tout le monde \u00e0 la campagne semblait avoir des enfants. C’est ainsi qu’a commenc\u00e9 sa qu\u00eate d’identit\u00e9 en tant que non-m\u00e8re dans une culture qui privil\u00e9gie la famille.<\/p>\n Depuis 2012, Kate a parl\u00e9 intimement avec des centaines de femmes nord-am\u00e9ricaines qui n’ont pas d’enfants, \u00e2g\u00e9es de vingt-quatre \u00e0 quatre-vingt-onze ans. Elle est implacable dans sa recherche de donn\u00e9es pertinentes sur le fait de ne pas avoir d’enfants dans la presse universitaire et populaire. Kate a \u00e9galement eu le privil\u00e8ge de parler des personnes aupr\u00e8s d’ organisations telles que l’AARP, l’Oregon Community Foundation, et plusieurs coll\u00e8ges, universit\u00e9s et communaut\u00e9s de retrait\u00e9s.<\/p>\n Kate est titulaire d’une ma\u00eetrise en \u00e9criture cr\u00e9ative du Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, d’une ma\u00eetrise en gestion et d’une licence en psychologie, ainsi que d’une exp\u00e9rience professionnelle dans le domaine du recrutement, de la formation et du conseil en entreprise. Elle a v\u00e9cu dans diverses communaut\u00e9s urbaines, suburbaines, rurales et c\u00f4ti\u00e8res et habite actuellement \u00e0 Portland, dans l’Oregon. Kate est fi\u00e8re de savoir conduire un tracteur…”<\/p>\n Elle est \u00e9galement l’auteur de “Do you have kids ? Life when the answer is no<\/a>“.<\/p>\n En tant qu’ambassadrices de la Semaine mondiale sans enfants, nous discutons ensemble du th\u00e8me “Embrasser l’identit\u00e9 de c\u00e9libataire…m\u00eame si parfois c’est dur”, lors de la journ\u00e9e appel\u00e9e Les Sans Enfant par Circonstances et l’Intimit\u00e9 Sexuelle ( Childlessness and Sexual Intimacy<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kate Kaufmann, author and speaker<\/p>\n Catherine-Emmanuelle Delisle<\/p>\n TRA, Th\u00e9rapeute en relation d’aide \u2122<\/p>\n Traduit avec www.DeepL.com\/Translator (version gratuite)<\/p>\n Ressources for living as a single and childless women\/Ressources pour les FSE c\u00e9libataires: <\/strong><\/p>\n How to be alone<\/strong><\/a> ( video by poet Tanya Davis)<\/p>\n The benefits of being alone<\/strong><\/a>( song by Canadian artist Rose Cousin)<\/p>\n Bella de Paolo<\/strong><\/a>( writer on single life)<\/p>\n The Budgette<\/strong><\/a>( created by Canadian Renee Silvester Williams- talking about singles and money)<\/p>\n Podcast<\/strong>: Innapropriate Questions: Should I ask \u201cWhy are you single?\u201d<\/a> ( cbc)<\/p>\n Gateway Women<\/strong> ( Mighty Networks- private community for childless women)<\/p>\n Section for childless and single women to interact<\/p>\n Vice: <\/strong>The \u201cleft over women\u201d phenomenon in China<\/a><\/p>\n Melanie Notkin<\/strong> ( single and PANK)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “…Kate Kaufmann is fascinated by how those who don’t have children craft their lives. There are no navigation charts for life outside the mainstream of motherhood. Or fatherhood, for that matter. Kate got her first inkling how different life as a non-mom can be after… <\/p>\n
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