Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness by Jessica Valenti

Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness

Jessica Valenti

208 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction feminism sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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If parenting is making Americans unhappy, if it’s impossible to “have it all,” if people don’t have the economic, social, or political structures needed to support child rearing, then why do it? And why are anxious new parents flocking to every Ti...

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