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Global resources

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  • Gateway Women website  www.gateway-women.com
    Jody Day’s Gateway Women website full of articles and resources for childless-not-by-choice women. UK based, global audience.
  • Lighthouse Women Online Community (formerly Gateway Women Community)
    www.gateway-women.com/community
    To apply for membership of the ‘best online community for childless-not-by-choice women’ (that’s a review, not me!) go to www.gateway-women.com and click on ‘Online Community’. All applications are vetted for member security and privacy. Free trial and then either a modest membership fee or free, depending on your circumstances.
  • Gateway Women Resource Library on Listly bit.ly/gw-library
    An online library of articles and resources of relevance to childless-by-circumstance women from online resources globally. At the last count almost 700 articles and resources.
  • Gateway Women Gallery of Childless & Childfree Role Models on Pinterest  bit.ly/gw-role-models
    Portraits and mini-biographies of childless and childfree women role models. 500+ women from different cultures and times, with more being added as I hear about them. Take a look and feel free to email me with your nominations to add.
  • Bella de Paulo’s ‘Community of Single People’ (Global) bit.ly/single-community
    This is a closed Facebook group for ‘Single people who want to live single lives joyfully, and free of stereotyping and stigma’. This group is for all genders, and includes single parents. It has nothing to do with dating. Bella de Paulo is an academic and writer who writes on the prejudices experienced by single adults, and coined the term ‘matrimania’.

UK Resources

  • AWWOC.org (Ageing Well Without Children) http://www.awoc.org
    Jody is a founding member of this not-for-profit campaigning and supporting the 20-25% of adults in the UK who will be ageing without children, and the millions who already are.
  • BICA (British Infertility Counselling Association) http://bica.net
    The BICA website has a list of registered infertility counsellors in the UK. It is an organisation that is very aware of the support that men, women and couples need to move on with their lives after childlessness. It has been very supportive of the work of Gateway Women and Jody has both written for their journal and has spoken at their annual conference.
  • The Daisy Network (UK) www.daisynetwork.org.uk
    A UK charity that supports women who have experienced premature menopause or ‘premature ovarian failure’ as it’s often referred to.
  • More to Life (UK) www.infertilitynetworkuk.com/more_to_life
    A UK charity that provides online and face-to-face groups for women and couples moving on after infertility treatment.
  • Saying Goodbye (UK) http://www.sayinggoodbye.org/
    Saying Goodbye organise non-denominational services of remembrance in Cathedrals across the UK. The services are for people who have lost a child at any age or stage of pregnancy, at birth or in infancy, whether it was recently or many years ago.

European Resources

  • Femme Sans Enfant Meetup (Paris, France) www.meetup.com/Paris-femmesansenfant-com/
    Organised by Catherine-Emmanuelle Delisle, the Founder of the Canadian site https://femmesansenfant.com this is a regular Paris based meetup. I met the organiser of the Meetup at a UK event in 2016 and she was lovely, so do go along! (Both French and English speaking women welcome).
  • Books about miscarriage, grief and childlessness in French
    http://www.manoncyr.ca/suggestions-de-lectures.html
  • Spain (Barcelona): La Vida Sin Hijos (Life without Children) is a website and support group in Barcelona, Spain, created by Gloria Labay, a childless midwife. https://lavidasinhijos.com/

US Resources

  • Center for Complicated Grief (US) http://complicatedgrief.org/
    Part of the Columbia School of Social Work in New York, The Center for Complicated Grief has resources for both professionals looking to understand ‘CG’ better and train in their 16-session treatment programme, and for those looking for a therapist. They also have lots of really helpful reading material and resources on their website.
  • Childless Mormon Support (UShttp://childlessmormonsupport.com/
    A website blog set up by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day-Saints who, through various reasons, are living life without children.
  • Childless Mothers Connect (CMC) and Childless Mothers Adopt (CMomA) (US) www.cmoma.org/cmc
    Psychotherapist Dr Marcy Cole’s website, organisation and community for ‘Childless Mothers’ (by both choice and circumstance) and her project (CMomA) to connect children-in-need with adoptive or foster mothers. Marcy is a childless-by-circumstance woman herself.
  • Our Spirit Babies (US) http://www.spiritbabies.org
    Interfaith community events for people who have been affected by pregnancy loss, whether by miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth or for any other reason. Those mourning not being able to have children for any reason are also welcome. The website also has some beautiful photos of shrines and alters created at their events.
  • Savvy Auntie (US) www.savvyauntie.com www.huffingtonpost.com/melanie-notkin
    Melanie Notkin’s US site for women without children who are aunts, godmothers or in some way ‘childful’. Also has a busy online community. Melanie Notkin also writes movingly for Huffington Post on being a single, childless woman in her mid-40s.

Canadian Resources

  • Femme Sans Enfant (French Canada) http://www.femmesansenfant.com
    Blogs, articles and video interviews with childless and childfree women (and men) across the Francophone world. Started by Catherine-Emmanuelle Delisle who is childless due to early menopause (age 14), it won in the 2014 ‘Activism and Social Justice’ category in Canada’s ‘Schmutzie’ Weblog Awards. Also a Meetup group. 
  • Femme Sans Enfant Meetup Group (Montreal, Canada) http://www.meetup.com/femme-sans-enfant
    A French-speaking Meetup group organised and run by Catherine-Emmanuelle Delisle of ‘Femme Sans Enfant’
  • Mothering Your Heart (English speaking Canada / Global) http://www.motheringyourheart.com/
    Email program and group for support after infertility and baby loss. Based in Canada but with global access.

Australian Resources

  • Childless Support www.ChildlessSupport.com
    Do you feel like you’ve lost your purpose, or come to a fork in the road? Or want to get your health back to a state of balance? Anne Barratt’s journey through Childlessness has led her to become a professional multi-disciplinary health and mindset practitioner to help others so they don’t have to suffer in silence and get the help needed from someone who truly understands what they’re going through from personal experience.  Anne offers individual sessions in person (Blue Mountains, Sydney) or via Zoom.
  • The Empty Cradle – a healing community for childless women www.theemptycradle.com
    Created by counsellor Sarah Roberts, The Empty Cradle supports women who have lost the opportunity for motherhood to grieve the loss and create a life they love. Offering online counselling (by Skype/Zoom), in-person counselling (Brisbane Australia), a newsletter, online resources, workshops, courses and the power of a loving community. You can contact Sarah directly at support@theemptycradle.com or through the contact form on the website
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