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

Name: Why Have Kids? A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness
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ISBN: 9780547892610

ISBN-10: 0547892616

ISBN-13: 9780547892610

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jessica Valenti

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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 parenting, then why do it?In Why Have Kids?, Jessica Valenti asks this the controversial—but necessary—question. Through on-the-ground reporting, new scientific studies, and her own burgeoning motherhood, Valenti offers an in-depth exposé into the world of having (and not having) children. She cites shocking statistics about parental happiness and child care, new science that's shaking up the parent-advice industry, and stories from a generation of parents who are finding out that having kids isn't all they thought it would…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
Publication date: 9/4/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction


Lies



Children Make You Happy



Women Are the Natural Parent



Breast Is Best



Children Need Their Parents



"The Hardest Job in the World"



Mother Knows Best


Truth



Giving Up on Parenthood



"Bad" Mothers Go to Jail



Smart Women Don't Have Kids



Death of the Nuclear Family



Women Should Work



Why Have Kids?


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


About the Author