WHO GETS TO HAVE KIDS?: Creating a Family in an Age of Uncertainty [IE, Airside, Export-only]

Louie Sussman, Anna

ISBN 10: 0008411727 / ISBN 13: 9780008411725

Published by William The 4th, 2026

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2026. Paperback. ***THIS IS A PRE-ORDER TO BE SHIPPED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DATE IN SEPTEMBER 2026***. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: WHO GETS TO HAVE KIDS?: Creating a Family in an Age of Uncertainty [IE, Airside, Export-only]
• Publisher: William The 4th
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0008411727
• ISBN 13: 9780008411725
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

'Reveals the deep roots of the parenthood gap, and diagnoses an urgent problem that affects us all. Vivid and persuasive’ Professor Sarah Franklin

'One of the biggest questions facing modern civilization: whether and how its next generation will come to be' Christine Emba

For generations, starting a family was an ordinary part of life. But today, there’s a marked gap between how many children people want to have and how many they actually will. In this era of unprecedented opportunity for women, soaring inequality and a changing climate, who gets to have kids, and why?

Spurred by the unexpected obstacles she encountered in her own quest to become a parent, journalist Anna Louie Sussman explores what is keeping us from having the families we desire, as birth rates plummet around the world. As she probes everything from dating to housing, the climate crisis to the nature of work, Sussman shows how decades of policy choices that elevated profits over people and individualism over interdependence have left people increasingly unable to envision a future in which they have children. Reporting from South Korea, Scandinavia, North America, Poland and beyond, Sussman unearths intimate stories that illustrate the deep personal and collective cost when such a fundamental human experience falls so far out of reach.

A singular and timely investigation into how parenthood has been altered by a capitalist system run wild, this is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the universal challenges and triumphs of becoming a parent in our uncertain age.

About the Author

Anna Louie Sussman is a journalist reporting on gender, economics, and reproduction, and a contributing Opinion writer at the New York Times. A former staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal and Reuters, she has reported from nearly two dozen countries for the New York Times, New Yorker, Atlantic, Guardian, New York, New York Review of Books, Elle, and many other publications. She lives with her daughter in New York City.