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Oct 29, 2024 | 
ca.style.yahoo.com | Anastasia Berg |Rachel Wiseman
Why so many of us just don’t know if we want kidsArtwork by Jaime Lee - Getty ImagesWhen thirty-something stoner yoga teacher Eden becomes accidentally pregnant after a one-night stand in feminist buddy comedy Babes, the concept of motherhood seems wildly out of her comfort zone. Eden is self-employed, has no familial support, and her idea of a well-balanced meal is psychedelic mushrooms on toast. Can she pull this off?
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
chronicle.com | Anastasia Berg |Rachel Wiseman
The role of children and family in private and public life has become a flashpoint in the public discourse. The musician Charli XCX mused about whether she should have baby on her summer-defining album Brat. JD Vance’s comments on “childless cat ladies” dominated several news cycles and caused an unexpected public-relations crisis for the Trump campaign.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Anastasia Berg |Rachel Wiseman |Elizabeth Matthew |James Patterson
What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice is an ambitious book that addresses arguably the most pressing questions of both our time and all time: Are people good? Is life worth living? What does it mean to be a parent? What is motherhood, what is fatherhood, and how are these roles similar and different?
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
thepointmag.com | Matti Friedman |Jon Baskin |Anastasia Berg
Matti Friedman is a freelance journalist and the author of Pumpkinflowers and Who by Fire: War, Atonement, and the Resurrection of Leonard Cohen. Based in Israel, Friedman joined the Jerusalem bureau for the AP in 2006. After leaving the AP in 2011, Friedman has continued to report from the region, and his essays for publications such as the Atlantic, Tablet, and the Smithsonian have often focused on the distorting role of what he calls the “Israel story” in the Western press and imagination.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
adn.com | Katha Pollitt |Anastasia Berg |Rachel Wiseman
Twenty years ago I was asked to write a blurb for a book called “Women Who Think Too Much.” I was indignant. How can a woman think too much? Thinking is good! The very idea is sexist - nobody would write a book called “Men Who Think Too Much.” Two decades later that book is still in print, and I’m coming around to it.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Anastasia Berg |Rachel Wiseman
Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Anastasia Berg |Rachel Wiseman
Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman on Personal Fulfillment and Family Life in the 21st Century If, as the story goes, romance and women’s happiness have been sacrificed on the altar of family for too long, now the dynamic is being reversed. When we spoke to her in 2021, Abby, a forty-two-year-old music teacher living in Brooklyn, told us she had been torn for years between her desire to be a mother and her love for a man who decidedly did not want children. She and her partner had finally...
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
prensalibre.com | Anastasia Berg
Los niveles de preparación para formar una familia son tan elevados y vagos a la vez que no es de extrañar que la gente no los alcance. Para los hombres y mujeres jóvenes, laicos y políticamente progresistas, tener hijos se ha convertido en algo secundario. La sabiduría liberal convencional anima a la gente a pasar la década de sus 20 años en viajes de autodescubrimiento y realización personal y profesional.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
thecut.com | Anastasia Berg
Art: March Avery, Evening Reading, 1972/© 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Courtesy of the artist, Private Collection, and BLUM Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York. Photo: Josh Schaedel Soon after I gave birth to my daughter three years ago, questions about my well-being started to take a new, unexpected form. Interest seemed to shift away from my physical state — how was I feeling, how much sleep were we getting — toward something else.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Anastasia Berg |Rachel Wiseman
For young, secular, politically progressive men and women, having children has become something of an afterthought. Liberal conventional wisdom encourages people to spend their 20s on journeys of personal and professional self-discovery and self-fulfillment. Children are treated as a bonus round, something to get to only after completing a long list of achievements: getting a degree, forging a satisfying and well-established career, buying a house, cultivating the ideal romantic partnership.
