Unclassified Woman

My guest today, Meghan Daum, has been an Op Ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times since 2005. Meghan is also the author of four books, including The Unspeakable and Other Subjects of Discussion, which won the 2015 Penn Center USA Award for Creative Nonfiction. She edited the NY Times best–selling anthology Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed, which is a compilation of 16 writers’ essays on the choice to not have kids. This book has sparked wide ranging conversation around the topic of choosing to have or to not have kids. Meghan’s message is that opting out of parenthood is NOT a sign of laziness or immaturity, but a complicated and intensely personal decision. Join us to hear Meghan discuss the following: It was Meghan’s personal choice to not become a parent, and it was something she always knew deep-down, but didn’t realize that option existed. Having/not having a child is an interesting subject to write about and lends itself to a deeper look and deliberate thought about that life choice. Meghan became