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

A provocative and intimate exploration of modern parenthood from a writer named “a gutsy young third-wave feminist” by the New York Times.

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?, Valenti explores these controversial questions through on-the-ground reporting, startling new research, and her own unique experiences as a mom. She...