The Baby Boon: How Family-Friendly America Cheats the Childless

by Elinor Burkett

Overview

Americans are on a demographic collision course between the growing numbers of mothers in the workforce and the swelling ranks of a new interest group: childless adults. Armed with hard data and grassroots reporting, Elinor Burkett points the way to a more equitable future.

With an inside look at what some companies are already doing to redress the grievances of childless workers and a hard assessment of what the truly needy — children and adults — require in order to survive, Burkett fires the first shot in the battle to come.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780743242646
Publisher:	Free Press
Publication date:	04/05/2002
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Elinor Burkett has worked as a newspaper reporter, university professor, and magazine writer. A Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and the author of eight previous books, she divides her time between the Catskill Mountains of New York and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

Table of Contents

All Animals Are Equal

PART ONE
America's New Family-Friendly Face
In the Workplace and in Public Policy

1. Unequal Work for Unequal Pay
2. Pregnant Payoffs

PART TWO
For the Children?
Hardly -- Pure Politics Are Driving This Train

3. For the Sake of Which Children?
4. Family Frenzy
5. The Maternal Mystique

PART THREE
Balancing Act

6. No Kidding
7. When the Bough Breaks

Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

Editorial Reviews

Ann Coulter author of High Crimes and Misdemeanors It has been said that people never notice the prejudices of their own time. Just as fish can't describe water, humans can't see the biases, mores, and conventions of their own little worlds. Elinor Burkett is one of the rare flying fish who can discern the prejudices of our own era and describe them in colorful, often hilarious, detail. This amazing and important book will shake up today's class of favored citizens.

Michelangelo Signorile author of Life Outside and Queer in America Finally, someone's got the guts to point to the elephant in the room: that America discriminates, sometimes quite shamelessly, against those who do not have children. No one better could be making this clarion call than the compelling, relentless truth-teller, Elinor Burkett. The Baby Boon speaks for so many of us who stay silent, fearful of being tarred as "anti-family." But Burkett's is not a book that is "anti" anything. The Baby Boon is about inclusivity and fairness, about the American values of equality and justice. A meticulous journalist with facts and figures in hand, she makes a case that simply cannot be dismissed.

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