In age where it's all about baby, the childfree are fighting back

0 Comments | Oakland Tribune, Jul 30, 2006 | by Candace Murphy, STAFF WRITER

The more appropriate question may be how much more baby can the baby-free take? As writer Joseph Epstein warns that with today's child-centeredness "family has become the rivalry of friendship," and as the child-free feel more and more marginalized with the addition of every Baby Gap at the local mall, some wonder when, or if, baby mania will cool off.

Frost, the author, sees no light at the end of the birth canal.

"Mine's not a manifesto -- I don't think my book can turn anything around," she says. "As long as George Bush calls stem cells 'little snowflakes,' we're going to have a problem."

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