ISBN: 0-07-140074-5
Summary: A conversational, easy to read book on the age old question, "Will I be happier as a mother or without children?" Each common reason given towards wanting children/not wanting children is expressed, and then shortly discussed. Decent look at the emotional questions the issue brings up, and a good read for crystallizing things one way or the other.
I found this book to be a quick read. It was easy to flip by the reasoning that I was not actually resonating with, and proceed directly to the authors' thoughts on the reasons that did appeal to or worry me. The author's take was quite unique to others I've read so far on the genre. One of the women writing this book was child-free, and the other a self-admitted "Failed Mom", who weekend parents after she left her kids with her husband. Though no one speaks of it, single motherhood can often bring those spectres of doubt;
"Am I good enough? Financially okay enough? Can I do this? Will it make me happy? What if I fail and they take my kids away?"
The author's candidness in telling her story and showing that even after that "worst case fail" scenario, it wasn't the end of the world for her, her happiness, and her relationship with her children was unique.
What I found amusing was the evidence of a previous library reader's journey though these hilly issues. At the start of the book, she had written in several comments showing her ambivalence, and by the end she had obviously decided that having children when she didn't want them with a partner who did was a bad option for her. The amount of circling and re-circling, happy faces and angry faces, really pressed home that this book had markedly helped at least one women get to a better head space re these issues.
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