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On this page you can find out more about how to download images, planners and read about Steph and the story of World Childless Week. Stephanie Joy Phillips is the owner and founder of World Childless Week.
Download the World Childless Week Press Release HERE
About Stephanie
Stephanie spent a large part of her twenties in an abusive relationship so took the contraceptive pill to prevent a children being born into that situation. In her early thirties she met her husband to be but they didn't try to conceive until nearing forty. At the age of 39 she was told by an unsympathetic doctor "if he manages to get you pregnant it is highly unlikely you'll carry full term". She knew in that moment, she would never be a mum.
In 2016 Stephanie Joy Phillips founded three childless support groups on Facebook: Childless Path To Acceptance focuses on support, Childless Chit Chat is a trigger free zone and Childless Perks!! is all about laughter and finding the positives of being childless, without a parent saying 'I told you so'.
In 2017 after realising there was no national recognition of the childless community she founded World Childless Week. Seven days that enables the childless community to have a platform where they can find their voice and share their stories with confidence.
Steph lives in Worcestershire with her husband and two rescue cats, Storm and Tea-Cup. She enjoys gardening, arts and crafts, a good book, dining out and relaxing in front of the television with a puzzle book and one of her two cats snuggled up beside her.
Winner of the BBC Hereford and Worcester Make A Difference ‘Together’ Award , September 2023
Shortlisted for Most Inspirational Woman award, Inspirational awards for women, December 2020
World Childless Week Media
My Conversation with Stephanie Joy Phillips, Childless Not By Choice with Civilla Morgan, Sept 2023
How to Find Connection With Other Childless Women, Awakening Worth, August 2023
World Childless Week 2023 & the Personal Impact of Pronatalism, New Legacy Radio, July 2023
More childlessness awareness and support needed in the workplace, Love Business East Midlands, July 2023
Grief can Ease and Coexist with Joy. Life can be Good Again, Happy and Childless podcast, May 2023
10 minute stories, Storyhouse Childless, September 2022
Community Visibility & Celebration, New Legacy Radio, July 2022
Conversation with the Founder of World Childless Week, The Fertility Conversations podcast, July 2022
World Childless Week the Annual Event for us, by Stephanie Phillips! (un)RIPE podcast, May 2022
Life without Children: Some by Chance, Some by Choice, Vanity Fair, September 2021
World Childless Week, Bibi Lynch mypoint.tv, Sept 2021
Childless not by Choice, The Fertility Podcast, October 2021
How the childless women of Instagram helped me come to terms with never having a family, The Telegraph, Sept 2021
World Childless Week, The Full Stop podcast, September 2021
Game Changer, Tutum Journal, September 2021
The Childless Are Worthy to Be Seen and Heard, Psychology Today, August 2021
Childless Not By Choice, A Journey of Infertility, Conversations with Alison Jaye - The Journey to here, March 2021
World Childless Week, Newstalk Radio, September 2019
World Childless Week, The Full Stop podcast, September 2019
World Childless Week, More to Life (Fertility Network), August 2019
Please don’t push Pregnancy or Children in my Face, The Fertility Podcast, August 2018
World Childless Week, More to Life (Fertility Network), August 2018
Redesigning loss and life, PechaKucha Cambridge, August 2018
The Unborn Child, The Fertility Podcast, June 2018
The Unborn Child, Ferility Fest, May 2018
Everyone in this room has a story to tell. What’s yours? Fertility Fest, April 2018
World Childless Week for those without Kids, Kate on Thin Ice, March 2018
World Childless Week starts today - here’s why it is important, Metro, September 2017
Not Everyone Chooses to be Childless: World Childless Week, Star and Crescent, September 2017