Why Have Kids? Audiobook (Free)

In Why Have got Kids?, Valenti explores these controversial questions through on-the-ground confirming, startling new analysis, and her own unique experiences as a mother. She moves beyond the dark and white “mommy wars” over organic parenting, self-discipline, and work-life stability to explore a far more nuanced fact: one filled with ambivalence, pleasure, guilt, and exhaustion. Would-be parents must navigate the decision to have kids amidst a daunting combination of social expectations and hard details. And about Why Possess Kids? fresh parents end up attempting to reconcile their elation with the frequently exhausting, complicated, and expensive business of kid care. When research workers for a 2010 Pew research asked parents why they made a decision to have their first child, almost 90 percent responded, for “the joy of having children.” Yet just about any study in the last ten years shows a marked decline in the life satisfaction of these with kids. Valenti explores this disconnect between parents’ expectations and the day-to-day actuality of increasing children-revealing all the ways parents are quietly battling. A must-listen for parents aswell as those considering starting a family group, Why Have Kids? can be an explosive addition to the conversation about modern parenthood.