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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
@Paula_JKnight And trying to heal your inner child by having a child is a selfish act. To put that on a kid sure is not thinking about the kid first. One can argue that a person is not ready to have a kid Until they deal with healing their own inner child. #pronatalism
As you know ; ) points to the deep #pronatalist assumption that we are all supposed to want children. If we think we don't, we also don't know our own mind, bcz we will eventually realize we do want them. Hogwash, but so ingrained! twitter.com/ChildFreeBC/st…