- July 26, 2016
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Children? No. Mother-feelings? Yeah!
Melanie Notkin is featured in the August 2016 issue of Germany's EMOTION Magazine on Otherhood.
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New York Post: I’m 47 and my love life is better than ever!
A piece I wrote for The New York Post is the "Body & Soul" section cover story today, June 16, 2016.
My essay is inspired by my dating life in my 40s and I share why it's better now than it was...Read More »
- May 16, 2016
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Savvy Auntie, PANK and Melanie Notkin Named in Euromonitor International Top 10 Global Consumer Trends for 2016 Report
Trend: Spending Singles - "Child-free Spenders"
"PANKs (Professional Aunt No Kids) ... [is] a trending demographic. With more consumers postponing or not having childre...Read More »
- April 29, 2016
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11 Things I Wish I’d Known About Dating In My Thirties
Rachel Spencer, BuzzFeed Contributor
2. And you don’t have to live up to other people’s expectations, either.
I spent most of my thirties in a frenzy fretting about finding a man, settling down, a...Read More »
- January 22, 2016
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Move over, millennials, new breeds coming: Savvy titas, cheapskates and ‘third-agers’ changing tastes and behavior
This year, expect consumers to be less bothered about labels and gender conformity and more concerned about their physical and mental wellbeing and their need to inspire change, latest data on Global ...Read More »
- October 9, 2015
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Not having them at all: Why childfree women are banding together
"Notkin, author of Otherhood: Modern Women Finding a New Kind of Happiness, will deliver a keynote based on the book. “The myopic view of mother as all women establishes women who don’t have children ...Read More »
- October 9, 2015
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Not having them at all: Why childfree women are banding together
"Notkin, author of Otherhood: Modern Women Finding a New Kind of Happiness, will deliver a keynote based on the book. “The myopic view of mother as all women establishes women who don’t have children as the ‘other’ to mother,” she explained. The consequences of this othering are significant: “If we are ‘other’ to mother then we will never live our full authentic lives, because we will always be measured against what society believes to be our potential.” This, according to Notkin, is an important issue feminism has yet to fully address."
- October 6, 2015
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Call me ‘childless.’ I won’t think less of myself.
I was only trying to make conversation, as one does at a party. But when I was introduced to a reality-show star, the conversation ended just as quickly as it began.
We started with the customary “...Read More »
How to Know You're Not Alone in the Otherhood
I have made some of the most endearing, most meaningful, and most everlasting friendships of my life in my thirties and forties. But there was a time when I thought I might end up alone. In my twentie...Read More »
How to Know You’re Not Alone in the Otherhood
I have made some of the most endearing, most meaningful, and most everlasting friendships of my life in my thirties and forties. But there was a time when I thought I might end up alone. In my twentie...Read More »