Who Gets to Have Kids?
William Collins (Verlag)
978-0-00-841172-5 (ISBN)
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For generations, creating a family was an ordinary part of human life. But today, there’s a stark divide between how many children women want to have, and how many they actually will. As birth rates plummet around the world, this book answers the urgent question: how did such a fundamental human experience drift so far out of reach? Spurred by the unexpected obstacles she encountered in her own quest to become a parent, journalist and cultural critic Anna Louie Sussman explores what is keeping us from having the families we desire. She asks, in this era of extraordinary opportunity for women, soaring income inequality, and incalculable environmental change, who gets to have children, and why?
Through intimate portraits of individuals and couples who find their parenthood project stymied by barriers their own parents could never have imagined, Sussman shows how decades of policy choices that elevated profits over people and individualism over interdependence has left young people increasingly unable to envision a future in which they and their would-be children might thrive.
In this wide-ranging and deeply reported analysis, Sussman shows how young South Koreans’ disgust with a hypercompetitive education system and job market have helped bring the country’s fertility rate to the lowest in the world, and why even the stellar family policies of the Nordic states are not enough to combat the sense that the future grows more uncertain and inhospitable to children with every passing day. From the American nurse whose student loans keep him and his wife from trying for the family they’ve always wanted to the Polish lawyer who was barred from receiving IVF as a single mom, the stories she shares illustrate the deeply human cost of what happens when those who dream of having a child are unable to experience that love.
A singular and timely investigation into how everything from romance to education to the very process of creating a baby has been altered by a capitalist system run amok, Who Gets to Have Kids? is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the universal challenges (and triumphs) of building families in our uncertain age.
Anna Louie Sussman is a journalist covering gender, economics, and reproduction. A former staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal and Reuters, she has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, New York, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Elle, and numerous other publications. She has reported from nearly two dozen countries on everything from the multibillion-dollar global art market to South Korea’s gender wars, and has been the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, residencies, and awards, including from the New America Foundation, the Alicia Patterson Foundation, MacDowell, the Logan Nonfiction Program, the Fetisov Journalism Awards, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism, the Omidyar Network, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the DeGroot Foundation, the Greater Good Science Center, and others.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.9.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 270 g |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-00-841172-7 / 0008411727 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-00-841172-5 / 9780008411725 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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