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How did our family influence our childlessness? This week's special guest, Maree, is one of four adopted siblings. We chat about her family, her mother's trauma over her own infertility, and how that influenced Maree's choices around family, relationships and children.

Statistics: What are the stats relating to the backgrounds of childless women, are there common threads?

Shit that comes up on my feed: The online Tupperware party! Icebreakers can be heart breakers. Be warned. We also ask, are we being too sensitive?

Question of the Week: Did the family you grew up in impact your decision to have children, not have them, or delay having them? 

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List of resources and articles we referenced in the episode
ABS - Family Formation Trends in childlessness - https://bit.ly/3hg1JNu
Deakin University Study - Why are childless women childless? Findings from an exploratory study in Victoria, Australia: https://bit.ly/3jObEeK
Why are childless women childless? by Melissa Graham: https://bit.ly/3h8Irtf
Family background, schooling and childlessness in Australia by Nicholas J. Parr: https://bit.ly/3hd6Yxc

Sound engineering and original music by Jeff Willis. You can find his tunes on Spotify and iTunes

In our first mini episode we talk to World Childless Week founder Stephanie Phillips.

World Childless Week 2020 is a virtual event held online through this website and on social media channels from September 14-20.

To find out more about World Childless Week: www.worldchildlessweek.net/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorldChildlessWeek

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Sound engineering and original music by Jeff Willis. You can find his tunes on Spotify and iTunes

This week's episode is all about the birth of UnRipe. Who is Unripe, who is Jo? What is the (un)Ripe mission and our focus on Women in Australia and New Zealand who do not have children?

Statistics: An intro to childless and childfree stats for women n Australia and New Zealand. 

Shit that comes up on my feed: A weekly round-up of stories that we've encountered. This week is all about an article published on Mamamia, "Parents in Lockdown", once again pitting parents against the childfree.

Question of the Week: Have you spoken to a counsellor or psychologist (or even your GP) about the grief you've experienced from childlessness?

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List of resources and articles we referenced in the episode.
Stats:
Australian Bureau of Statistics: https://bit.ly/3lDWESz
NZ Census: https://bit.ly/3lDWESz
Daily Mail: http://dailym.ai/3lrTwZT

Mamamia article: https://bit.ly/2QDz4XG

Sound engineering and original music by Jeff Willis. You can find his tunes on Spotify and iTunes

Welcome to (un)Ripe. We're a juicy community of Australian-based women who are either childfree by choice or childless by circumstance. In this episode you'll meet Jo and her guest host. We'll tell you a little about ourselves and the (un)Ripe project.  unRipe is a vibrant, supportive community created for and by childless and childfree women who are anything but unRipe. A community where we can tell our stories, speak our truths, build advocacy, and find our purpose and meaning when it is not defined by for us through the role of motherhood.

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Sound engineering and original music by Jeff Willis. You can find his tunes on Spotify and iTunes