by Laura | Sep 5, 2012
In this pathbreaking book, psychologist Mardy Ireland takes on womanhood without parenthood. She does an insightful historical examination of the development of female identity from a psychoanalytic view, and how the theories don’t take into account the...
by Laura | Jul 1, 2012
One-child households have doubled in the past two decades, making them the fastest growing family unit in America. In The Future of Your Only Child author Carl Pickhardt examines the particular dynamics of one-child households, with its own set of opportunities and...
by Laura | Apr 20, 2012
As a strong advocate for taking the parenthod decision seriously, I can say this book is a compassionate guide for women confronting the parenthood decision. Authors Diane Dell, a board-certified ob/gyn doctor and psychiatrist, and Suzan Erem, an award-winning...
by Laura | Apr 13, 2012
In The End of Nature, Bill McKibben discusses the perils of climate change, and in Maybe One turns his attention to the related problem of population growth, and to a powerful but simple thing every parent can do to help: stop at one child. The book is deeply...
by Laura | Aug 15, 2011
Published some time ago now, author Susan Jeffers’ messages are still so relevant! There is, she says, a kind of conspiracy of silence surrounding just how difficult, and at times downright unrewarding, the job of being a parent really is. A mother herself,...
