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Two Views Of Motherhood: Celebrating Mom And Childfree By Choice

By Steve Kraske,

Published May 3, 2021 at 4:33 PM CDT

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Natalie Torres Gallagher with her mother, Lorraine, in Bay City, 1989.

One woman celebrates her mother's life through recreating a recipe and another reveals why she and others choose to be childfree.

Natalie Torres Gallagher tells how she reclaimed the heritage of her mother by cooking her rice recipe. Amy Blackstone explains the growing movement of women choosing to forgo motherhood.

Natalie Torres Gallagher, writer for Kansas City Magazine, "How cooking my mother’s rice gave me my name back"
Amy Blackstone, professor of sociology, University of Maine, author of “Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence”

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Steve Kraske

When I host Up To Date each morning at 9, my aim is to engage the community in conversations about the Kansas City area’s challenges, hopes and opportunities. I try to ask the questions that listeners want answered about the day’s most pressing issues and provide a place for residents to engage directly with newsmakers. Reach me at steve@kcur.org or on Twitter @stevekraske.

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Danie Alexander

As senior producer of Up To Date, I want our listeners to hear familiar and new voices that shine light on the issues and challenges facing the myriad communities KCUR serves, and to expose our audiences to the wonderful and the creative in the Kansas City area. Just as important to me is an obligation to mentor the next generation of producers to ensure that the important conversations continue. Reach me at alexanderdk@kcur.org.

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Mackenzie Martin

Whether it’s something happening right now or something that happened 100 years ago, some stories don’t fit in the short few minutes of a newscast. As a podcast producer and reporter at KCUR Studios, I help investigate questions and local curiosities in a way that brings listeners along for adventures with plot twists and thought-provoking ideas. Sometimes there isn’t an easy answer in the end – but my hope is that we all leave with a greater understanding of the city we live in. Reach me at mackenzie@kcur.org.

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