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All joy and no fun, the paradox of modern parenthood, Jennifer Senior

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All joy and no fun

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Jennifer Senior

the paradox of modern parenthood

Award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior isolates and analyzes 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, making their mandates at once more complex and far less clear

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