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A review by overdueshrew
No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood by Debbie Kasper, Nancy Van Iderstine, Henriette Mantel
5.0
Loved this book - I would buy it and re-read it. The essays were intelligent and honest and most of them humorous, by women who were physically unable to have children and how they coped, and also women who made a distinctive choice to not have children, for a multitude of reasons.
I thought maybe one of them would have a great snappy comeback to the nosy questions/statements like "When are you going to have kids?" and "You'll understand when you have kids," but no one really has a perfect comeback to those. You just learn that the choice you made (or was made for you) is not really the most radical choice in the world. And that happiness and satisfaction is not necessarily found through giving birth - it's really found wherever you want it to be.
I thought maybe one of them would have a great snappy comeback to the nosy questions/statements like "When are you going to have kids?" and "You'll understand when you have kids," but no one really has a perfect comeback to those. You just learn that the choice you made (or was made for you) is not really the most radical choice in the world. And that happiness and satisfaction is not necessarily found through giving birth - it's really found wherever you want it to be.