Never to Be a Mother: A Guide for All Women Who Didn'T, or Couldn'T, Have Children - Hardcover

Linda Hunt Anton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062500791 ISBN 13: 9780062500793

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1992

Synopsis

A guide for childless women offers ten steps toward resolution, including acknowledging and experiencing the loss, letting go of blame, rechanneling mothering energy, maximizing the advantages of child-free living, and more. $30,000 ad/promo.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Anton, a clinical social worker who herself never had a baby, addresses this comforting and deeply personal guide to women who are not childless by choice. Using her own experience and those of others in the same predicament, she describes the various paths to childlessness--infertility, not having wed, a difficult marriage--and the ways in which feelings of loss may manifest themselves. In one upbeat section, she outlines 10 "steps to resolution," from acknowledging the loss and letting go of blame to thinking of oneself as "childfree" instead of "childless." And for those who want to join forces with other childfree women, she explains how to start a self-help group. The book contains interesting case histories, but Anton's tendency to romanticize motherhood and her sometimes self-pitying tone leave the impression that she herself has never really come to terms with being childless. $30,000 ad/promo; author tour.
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0062500791
• ISBN 13: 9780062500793
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1