5/28/2023 0 Comments The Baby Matrix by Laura Carroll![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is kind of a personal subject for me. Why does our society find this choice so hard to accept?” If having no children by choice was part of the norm, it would mean that those who make this choice would be members of a widely-accepted group and that we as a society have accepted their choice. Octomom anyone? And that’s just a few examples. culture, in which we obsess about having children, throw new parents a million baby showers, and put families on TV who have 8 children or more. Carroll is talking specifically about U.S. The Baby Matrix is about pronatalism, or our society’s need to insist that having children is the right thing for everyone, and that people should have all the babies they want (and they should want lots of them). ![]() Where books like Families of Two, or Two is Enough by Laura Scott, are aimed at people deciding not to have children, The Baby Matrix is aimed at everyone else. Carroll asked me to review her latest book, I jumped at the chance. She wasn’t trying to be objective rather, she sought to provide a point of view you won’t see reflected in our media anywhere. Her book interviewed more than thirty couples who could be described as living fulfilling, happily married lives without children. When I was thinking about not having children, in my early thirties, Laura Carroll’s book Families of Two was one I found helpful - and believe me when I tell you there weren’t a lot of resources out there. ![]()
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