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Why Choosing to Have Kids Feels Harder Than Ever
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Why Choosing to Have Kids Feels Harder Than Ever

Audio of my conversation with Professor Peggy O'Donnell Heffington

In Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother, and in conversation, Professor Peggy O’Donnell Heffington traces the collapse of once-common communal methods of childrearing. Her words contextualize why having kids — or choosing not to — feels so challenging for Americans in particular.

Professor Heffington teaches gender and women’s history…

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