Parenting & Motherhood

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

by Jennifer Senior

Journalist Jennifer Senior reverses the usual question and asks not what parents do to children, but what children do to parents. Interviewing parents across class and circumstance, she maps the emotional, marital, and existential disruptions of raising children in an era when expectations are impossibly high and support structures have collapsed. A frank, compassionate portrait of modern parenthood's paradoxes.

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