All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern ParenthoodDESCRIPTION : Award winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle the issue of the effects of children on their parents, isolating and analyzing the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of self. She argues that changes in the last half century have radically altered the roles of today's mothers and fathers,