“Salted with insights and epigrams, the book can be argued with bracing honesty and flashes of authentic knowledge…[an] excellent publication.” -Andrew Solomon, THE BRAND NEW York Times Book Review

‘[A] richly woven, engaging, enlightening, wrenching and funny publication.” -The Washington Post

A large number of books have got examined the effects of parents on the children. IN EVERY Joy no Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Mature now asks: what are the consequences of children on their parents?

In All Pleasure no about All Joy no Fun: The Paradox of Contemporary Parenthood Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question, isolating and analyzing the many ways that kids reshape their parents’ lives, whether it’s their marriages, their careers, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of personal. She argues that adjustments in the last half century have radically modified the jobs of today’s parents, producing their mandates at once more complex and far less clear.

Recruiting from a wide variety of sources-in history, sociology, economics, psychology, beliefs, and anthropology-she dissects both the timeless strains of parenting and the ones that are brand new, and then brings her research to life in the homes of ordinary parents around the united states. The result can be an unforgettable group of family members portraits, starting with parents of small children and progressing to parents of teens. Through energetic and available storytelling, Senior comes after these mothers and fathers because they wrestle with a few of parenthood’s deepest vexations-and luxuriate in a few of its finest rewards.

Meticulously researched yet imbued with emotional intelligence, All Joy no Fun makes us reconsider some of our culture’s most elementary beliefs approximately parenthood, most while illuminating the profound ways children deepen and add purpose to our lives. By concentrating on parenthood, rather than parenting, the reserve is unique and important reading for parents of today-and tomorrow.