One and Only The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One

Name: One and Only
Author: Lauren Sandler

Auteur: Lauren Sandler

Taal: Engels

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Uitgever: Simon & Schuster

Auteur: Lauren Sandler

Engels
Hardcover
9781451626957
11 juni 2013
224 pagina's

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Lauren Sandler

Lauren Sandler is the Life Editor of Salon. She has written about cultural politics for numerous newspapers and magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times, and has been featured on National Public Radio.

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Lauren Sandler is an only child with an only child of her own, who found that discussing the choice to stop at one kid was loaded with anxiety, doubt, misinformation, and judgment. After investigating what only children really are like and whether stopping at one child is an answer to reconciling motherhood and modernity, she learned a lot about herself-and a lot about our culture's assumptions. In this heartfelt work, Sandler demystifies the perceived problems of the only child and legitimizes a conversation about the larger societal costs of having more than one. We ask when people are having kids-never akid, never onechild at a time. If parents no longer felt they had to have second children to keep from royally screwing up their first, would the majority of them still do it? And, if the literature tells us-in hundreds of studies-that a child isn'tbetter off with a sibling and it's not something parents truly want for themselves, then whom is this choice serving? One and Onlyexamines these questions, exploring what the rise of the single-child family means for our economies, our environment, and our freedom. Sandler considers hundreds of studies and interviews, traveling around the world to discover that only children are just fine, their parents often happier, and our planet is better off for them. Sandler's controversial revelations will probably draw rebukes from the majority of parents who believe that having several children is the healthiest model for all members of a family. Others will claim that she's quite possibly cracked the code of happiness, demonstrating that having just one may be the way to resolve our countless issues with adulthood in our overtaxed age.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 11 juni 2013
Aantal pagina's: 224
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Hoofdauteur: Lauren Sandler
Hoofduitgeverij: Simon & Schuster

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Verpakking breedte: 140 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 23 mm
Verpakking lengte: 213 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 327 g

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