Who Gets to Have Kids?

‘Incredibly well-researched, featuring many great personal stories, including the author’s own. I was really gripped’ Audrey Ward, author of The Waiting Room‘The economics alone are damning: greedy jobs, mountains of student debt, ruinous housing costs, and childcare that consumes a full salary. Sussman’s book brings us the grinding consequences of those abstractions for those who did everything right, yet still found that starting a family had become inconceivable’ David Autor, co-author of The Work of the Future‘A passionate, thoughtful, and often movingly poetic exploration of life’s most fundamental questions: Why do so many of us feel so scared of the future? How should we take care of one another? What does it mean to cherish human life? This is certain to be a definitive work’ Suzy Hansen, author of From Life Itself and the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Notes on a Foreign Country‘A beautifully told tale of the most basic thing about us that we find so hard to understand’ Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1%‘Combines in-depth reportage and wry self-excavation to tackle one of the biggest questions facing modern civilization: whether and how its next generation will come to be. Nuanced, thought-provoking, and brave – a heartfelt paean to family and shared futures, and an incisive critique of the systems that make both feel impossible to sustain’ Christine Emba, author of Rethinking Sex: A Provocation‘Sussman’s blend of curiosity and empathy allows the reader to eavesdrop on the most intimate and vulnerable choices a person can make. A fascinating map of the doubts and hopes that shape American families’ Leah Sargeant, author of The Dignity of Dependence

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 has been the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, residencies, and awards, including from the Logan Nonfiction Program, MacDowell, the Fetisov Journalism Awards, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the DeGroot Foundation, and others.

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