What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice by Berg, Anastasia
What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice by Berg, Anastasia

What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

A modern argument, grounded in philosophy and cultural criticism, about childbearing ambivalence and how to overcome it...
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Author: Anastasia Berg
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What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice by Berg, Anastasia

What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

$61.15
What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice by Berg, Anastasia

What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice

$61.15
Author: Anastasia Berg
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A modern argument, grounded in philosophy and cultural criticism, about childbearing ambivalence and how to overcome it

Becoming a parent, once the expected outcome of adulthood, is increasingly viewed as a potential threat to the most basic goals and aspirations of modern life. We seek self-fulfillment; we want to liberate women to find meaning and self-worth outside the home; and we wish to protect the planet from the ravages of climate change. Weighing the pros and cons of having children, Millennials and Zoomers are finding it increasingly difficult to judge in its favor.

With lucid argument and passionate prose, Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman offer the guidance necessary to move beyond uncertainty. The decision whether or not to have children, they argue, is not just a women's issue but a basic human one. And at a time when climate change worries threaten the very legitimacy of human reproduction, Berg and Wiseman conclude that neither our personal nor collective failures ought to prevent us from embracing the fundamental goodness of human life--not only in the present but, in choosing to have children, in the future.

Author: Anastasia Berg, Rachel Wiseman
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 06/11/2024
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250276131


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/18/2024

About the Author

Anastasia Berg is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is an editor of The Point, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times​, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Chronicle of Higher Education Review.

Rachel Wiseman is the managing editor of The Point magazine. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Point, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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