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

3.0

This book was not really what I was expecting. I expected it to be more of a memoir about her experiences as a new mother, but instead it was mostly about statistics, and the successes and failures of parenting culture in the United States. I felt like a lot of the information wasn't new to me, but it did give me some good perspective on what it means to be a parent in America these days. The biggest lesson I learned from this: parenting is not a job, it is a relationship. Once we start looking at it that way, I think a whole new world opens up to us as we cultivate relationships with kids instead of being employed by them.