The Baby Matrix is my latest book! In the movie The Matrix, the character Morpheus offers two pills to Neo—if he takes the blue pill, he will go on with life as he has before, believing what he has always believed. If he…
Parenthood Books
Reconceiving Women: Separating Motherhood From Female Identity
In this pathbreaking book, psychologist Mardy Ireland takes on womanhood without parenthood. She does an insightful historical examination of the…
The Future of Your Only Child
One-child households have doubled in the past two decades, making them the fastest growing family unit in America. In The Future of Your Only Child author Carl Pickhardt examines…
Do I Want to Be A Mom? A Woman’s Guide to the Decision of a Lifetime
As a strong advocate for taking the parenthod decision seriously, I can say this book is a compassionate guide women confronting…
Maybe One: A Case for Smaller Families
In The End of Nature, Bill McKibben discusses the perils of climate change, and in Maybe One turns his attention to the related problem of population growth, and to a…
I’m OK, You’re a Brat! Setting the Priorities Straight and Freeing You from the Guilt and Mad Myths of Parenthood
Published some time ago now, author Susan Jeffers’ messages are still so…
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Line of the New Girly-Girl Culture
This book by Peggy Orenstein will definitely get you thinking about what influenced you as a child…
The Parenthood Decision
This book is an unsentimental, clear-eyed guide to deciding whether you want to become a parent. Author Beverly Engel prompts her readers to evaluate not only their desire to have…
You and Your Only Child
Parents who contemplate stopping at one child, or whose circumstances make that decision for them, face their future as a one-child household with a unique set of circumstances…