Baby Hunger: The New Battle for Motherhood - Softcover

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

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9781903809785: Baby Hunger: The New Battle for Motherhood

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ISBN 10: 1903809789 ISBN 13: 9781903809785

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2002

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Nearly half of all highly educated, high-earning women are childless. The more successful the woman, the less likely it is she has a partner or a baby. For men, the opposite is true: the more successful he is professionally, the more likely it is that he will be married with children. These women have not chosen to be childless. Indeed, most of them yearn for a baby and have gone to extraordinary lengths to become pregnant, often derailing their careers in the process. However, this volume reminds us that, despite the allure and apparent success of IVF treatment, only three to five per cent of women aged 40 and above manage to conceive this way. The age-old business of having babies is eluding an entire generation of successful women: they can be astronauts, chief executives, and politicans but, increasingly, they cannot be mothers. This text looks at why.

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About the Author:

SYLVIA ANN HEWLETT founded the National Parenting Association in 1993. She was a major policy adviser to Neil Kinnock in the 1980s and was Executive Director of the Economic Policy Council in New York. She is the author of several books, including the award-winning When the Bough Breaks and The War Against Parents. She lives in New York with her husband and their five children, the last of which was born when she was 51.

Review:

'Sylvia Ann Hewlett has written a book that has not so much struck a raw nerve as ripped out an entire spinal cord and left it dangling in the air.' The Times 'the US publishing smash' Barbara Ellen, Observer 'An important new book... Hewlett has a very cautionary tale to tell.'Daily Mail 'Baby Hunger has a beautifully simple thesis... it dares to probe the childless state, refusing to accept the glib suggestion that children were not wanted or simply did not happen.' Independent 'Hewlett exposes some discomforting realities... the furor around the book all but ignores the important question Hewlett raise: How do ambitious women balance work, marriage and children? ...Hewlett's solution is a provocative one... Her idea is both bold and shrewd' Susan Chira, New York Times 'Rare, well-publicised success stories are fooling an entire generation of women into believing they can outwit their biological clocks... If women are to combine work and children successfully, they have to start planning their private lives with the same ruthlessness as their careers.' Sarah Baxter, The Times 'What makes the book so powerful is the regret and anger that so many of these women express... Baby Hunger asks difficult and timely questions.' Management Today

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