I really loved your title, as well as this phrase in your closing: "who resist perfecting ourselves out of everything that makes us human."
I think that's just it.
Well done, a great review on an important book for our time. My copy is currently on loan to a mom friend. I can't count how many times it has come up in conversations, and it's only been out for a few months. I really appreciate your interaction with all the issues at play in the book using your wide breadth of knowledge! And, I will note here that you did not offer "increased government funding" as the solution to the decline in fertility rates. ;)
It’s like reading all the thoughts between the pieces you choose to share :) I’ll have to read the book at some point, but you did a great job drawing a lot of threads together!
I can’t WAIT to read these! I loved Exogenesis and I love Family Unfriendly. Write more Haley! Write more. You already have a devoted cheering section 💕
Wow. You describe is book as a tour de force but I think this article was one! You’ve done such a great job weaving so many themes and pieces of research together! When the season comes for you to write more, we will all be fortunate. And your family is so fortunate- your boys are going to be *great* conversationalists someday, which hopefully will delight some of the girls in your community so much that they will want families of their own :)
It’s an honor to read a book review / essay from you! I’ve been pondering some of the data you highlighted that I hadn’t known before, like how direct subsidies and indirect subsidies for family-building don’t create the same incentives.
My husband grew up in a 3 kid household in rural Vermont and he told me about “car hell” growing up: needing bigger vehicles, more car seats, etc. He also described other physical infrastructure that caters to 2 kid 2 parent households like tables at restaurants. But lucky for him, his family, the best of (functional) rural America (as opposed to elite DINC-dense suburban/urban America) treasured children and would have had more if they could, so they didn’t mind the inconveniences.
Congrats on this, Haley! I skimmed it and it looks like a wonderfully robust review😍 I still haven’t gotten through this book; perhaps this will motivate me!
Congrats!
I really loved your title, as well as this phrase in your closing: "who resist perfecting ourselves out of everything that makes us human."
I think that's just it.
Well done, a great review on an important book for our time. My copy is currently on loan to a mom friend. I can't count how many times it has come up in conversations, and it's only been out for a few months. I really appreciate your interaction with all the issues at play in the book using your wide breadth of knowledge! And, I will note here that you did not offer "increased government funding" as the solution to the decline in fertility rates. ;)
It’s like reading all the thoughts between the pieces you choose to share :) I’ll have to read the book at some point, but you did a great job drawing a lot of threads together!
I can’t WAIT to read these! I loved Exogenesis and I love Family Unfriendly. Write more Haley! Write more. You already have a devoted cheering section 💕
Wow. You describe is book as a tour de force but I think this article was one! You’ve done such a great job weaving so many themes and pieces of research together! When the season comes for you to write more, we will all be fortunate. And your family is so fortunate- your boys are going to be *great* conversationalists someday, which hopefully will delight some of the girls in your community so much that they will want families of their own :)
This is an incredible essay Haley. Really. I'm amazed at how much you were able to weave into it.
Thorough and thoughtful review, Haley! Thanks for sharing.
It’s an honor to read a book review / essay from you! I’ve been pondering some of the data you highlighted that I hadn’t known before, like how direct subsidies and indirect subsidies for family-building don’t create the same incentives.
My husband grew up in a 3 kid household in rural Vermont and he told me about “car hell” growing up: needing bigger vehicles, more car seats, etc. He also described other physical infrastructure that caters to 2 kid 2 parent households like tables at restaurants. But lucky for him, his family, the best of (functional) rural America (as opposed to elite DINC-dense suburban/urban America) treasured children and would have had more if they could, so they didn’t mind the inconveniences.
Great review, Haley!
I just put this on hold at the library the other day!
Congrats on this, Haley! I skimmed it and it looks like a wonderfully robust review😍 I still haven’t gotten through this book; perhaps this will motivate me!