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Title: The Parenthood Decision: Deciding Whether You Are Ready and Willing to Become a Parent by Beverly Engel ISBN: 0-385-48980-3 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.7 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This should be mandatory reading in schools
Comment: This book was excellent! I recommend it to everyone. I know I do not want children but my husband is wavering. I bought the book and highlighted passages for him to read and think about. I have loaned the book out and got great response on it as well. I always recommend this book to those who have the slightest question as to having kids. For me it even more confirmed my chosen childfree life. This book will help you decide if you are ready for kids now, in the future or ever.
Rating: 5
Summary: So Glad It Was Available
Comment: My husband won't do ANYTHING unless it can be researched, compared, validated, etc. He was also on the fence about having kids seven years ago when I was pretty sure I was ready to roll. I started looking for books on how to make this enormous decision and was scandalized to find NONE available anywhere. Then thankfully, in 1998 a fresh search turned up "The Parenthood Decision." I read it, loved it, and presented it to my husband--who by this time was utterly convinced he did not want children. However, he graciously went through it chapter by chapter. On a beautifully sunny summer afternoon he greeted me in the garden with the finished book and his announcement that he was not only ready, but that this book had convinced him that he actually WANTED TO HAVE CHILDREN. Sadly, infertility has foiled our plans. After some devastating failed attempts we may choose now to remain childfree--an option we never would have considered acceptable before reading this book. Thank you so much Beverly. Your book has graced our lives.
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't Bother
Comment: Sadly, the author of this book presents herself as an authority in the baby-decision making realm. And in some ways, she may be, having been a family therpist for over 35 years.
However, this single woman tells us in the introduction that she made a decision *not* to have a baby after asking herself the questions she asks of the reader in her book. So she does not possess the authority and insight of one who's been not only through the decision-making process, but also ultimately baby-bearing process.
What does comes across is her belief that almost no-one is capable of being a good parent, especially if one were to follow her guidelines. For example, in order to be a good parent, in this author's opinion, one must have enough money not just for clothing and food, but also for summer camp, vacations, dance lessons, and private school. This, in addition to being an unrealistic expectation, is simply classist and highly inappropriate.
Don't waste your time trying to work with this book.
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Title: Do I Want to Be A Mom? : A Woman's Guide to the Decision of a Lifetime by Diana L. Dell, Suzan Erem ISBN: 0071400745 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Pub. Date: 19 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Childless Revolution: What It Means to Be Childless Today by Madelyn Cain ISBN: 0738206741 Publisher: Perseus Books Group Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: I'm Okay...You're a Brat: Setting the Priorities Straight and Freeing You from the Guilt and Mad Myths of Parenthood by Susan, Ph.D. Jeffers ISBN: 1580632025 Publisher: Renaissance Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Pride and Joy: The Lives and Passions of Women Without Children by Terri Casey ISBN: 188522382X Publisher: Beyond Words Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Mask of Motherhood: How Becoming a Mother Changes Our Lives and Why We Never Talk About It by Susan Maushart ISBN: 0140291784 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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