All joy and no fun : the paradox of modern parenthood / Jennifer Senior.
Award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle the question, "What are the effects of children on their parents?", isolating and analyzing the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of self. She argues that changes in the last half century have radically altered the roles of today's mothers and fathers, making their mandates at once more complex and far less clear. The result is an unforgettable series of family portraits, starting with parents of young children and progressing to parents of teens. Through lively and accessible story-telling, Senior follows these mothers and fathers as they wrestle with some of parenthood's deepest vexations-and luxuriate in some of its finest rewards.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062072221
- ISBN: 0062072226
- Physical Description: 308 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2014]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-300) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1 Autonomy 15 -- 2 Marriage 45 -- 3 Simple Gifts 95 -- 4 Concerted Cultivation 117 -- 5 Adolescence 183 -- 6 Joy 237. |
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| Subject: | Parenthood. Children. Parent and child. |
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