Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids : Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think (Paperback)

from santom01

I was disappointed by this book. Despite a plethora of statistics and references to studies, I found it more fluffy than I anticipated. Given the fun title, there was obviously going to be some level of fluff, but I thought an economist would give it a bit more meat. His central preference was th...

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I don't agree that the logical conclusion to the evidence is to have more kids, but I really appreciated the reinforcement that there are many different ways to parent and it may not really matter which way you do it.

from 06nwingert

Today's Typical Parents (TTP) [a/k/a helicopter parents] often overestimate the amount of work they do, leading to complaints against having children, argues Bryan Caplan. In his book Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids, disseminates the nature/nurture dichotomy, arguing that a third factor is in p...