Presenting a debate on the need for a national parenting policy, this volume asks whether the time is approaching for parents to be formally educated & even licensed before they can take on the responsibilities of child care?
Does everyone and, more important, should everyone have the right to give birth to and raise children? Should there be a national parenting policy that includes mandatory parenthood training and screening to determine the suitability of all prospective parents, not just adoptive…
Does everyone and, more important, should everyone have the right to give birth to and raise children? Should there be a national parenting policy that includes mandatory parenthood training and screening to determine the suitability of all prospective parents, not just adoptive…
In this provocative and controversial collection of essays, curated by writer Meghan Daum, thirteen acclaimed female writers explain why they have chosen to eschew motherhood.
One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed "fertility crisis," and whether modern women could figure out a way to have it all -- a successful, demanding career and the required 2.3 children -- before their biological clock stopped tic…