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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.74 — 7,680 ratings — published 2015
Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,700 ratings — published 2019
I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.54 — 5,633 ratings — published 2013
Childfree and Loving It! (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.97 — 486 ratings — published 2005
Two Is Enough: A Couple's Guide to Living Childless by Choice (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.80 — 571 ratings — published 2009
Baby Not on Board: A Celebration of Life Without Kids (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.51 — 236 ratings — published 2005
Regretting Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,695 ratings — published 2016
Complete Without Kids: An Insider's Guide to Childfree Living by Choice or Chance (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.33 — 427 ratings — published 2010
The Childless Revolution: What It Means To Be Childless Today (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.54 — 210 ratings — published 2001
The Baby Boon: How Family-Friendly America Cheats the Childless (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.61 — 104 ratings — published 2000
Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,602 ratings — published 2023
Olive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.66 — 23,242 ratings — published 2020
No Kids: 40 Good Reasons Not to Have Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.22 — 693 ratings — published 2007
Do You Have Kids?: Life When the Answer Is No (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.54 — 339 ratings — published 2019
Confessions of a Childfree Woman: A Life Spent Swimming Against the Mainstream (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.13 — 150 ratings — published 2013
Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,705 ratings — published
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,700,331 ratings — published 2022
No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.60 — 496 ratings — published 2013
Beyond Motherhood: Choosing Life Without Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.61 — 119 ratings — published 1996
Bet Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.94 — 95,936 ratings — published 2004
Motherhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.63 — 22,356 ratings — published 2018
No Children, No Guilt (Nook)
by (shelved 9 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.68 — 50 ratings — published 2011
Pride and Joy: The Lives and Passions of Women Without Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.74 — 54 ratings — published 1998
Nobody's Mother: Life Without Kids (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.84 — 128 ratings — published 2006
Why Don't You Have Kids?: Living a Full Life Without Parenthood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.96 — 57 ratings — published 1995
Families of Two: Interviews with Happily Married Couples Without Children by Choice (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.67 — 72 ratings — published 2000
The Baby Decision: How to Make the Most Important Choice of Your Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,202 ratings — published 1981
The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds From Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.64 — 273 ratings — published 2012
I'm Okay, You're a Brat!: Setting the Priorities Straight and Freeing You From the Guilt and Mad Myths of Parenthood (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.60 — 131 ratings — published 1999
Others Like Me: The Lives of Women without Children (Audiobook)
by (shelved 6 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.96 — 640 ratings — published 2024
Tis the Season for Revenge (Seasons of Revenge, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.89 — 104,483 ratings — published 2022
What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.86 — 25,238 ratings — published 2014
Kidfree & Lovin' It! - Whether by Choice, Chance or Circumstance (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.75 — 36 ratings — published 2012
The Chosen Lives of Childfree Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 1999
Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.50 — 48 ratings — published 1996
The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.88 — 13,275 ratings — published 2021
Radiance (Wraith Kings, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,744 ratings — published 2015
Swordheart (Swordheart, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.05 — 59,477 ratings — published 2018
What We Deserve (Wishbone Tattoos, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,428 ratings — published 2021
This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.08 — 342 ratings — published 2019
No One Tells You This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.90 — 5,934 ratings — published 2018
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.08 — 224,131 ratings — published 2003
Why Have Children?: The Ethical Debate (Basic Bioethics)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.69 — 145 ratings — published 2012
The Baby Trap (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.61 — 61 ratings — published 1971
No Way Baby! Exploring, Understanding and Defending the Decision NOT to Have Children (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.81 — 48 ratings — published 2010
Reconceiving Women: Separating Motherhood from Female Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.75 — 24 ratings — published 1993
Catch Her If You Can (Big Shots, #5)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.54 — 32,946 ratings — published 2026
Someone Other Than a Mother: Flipping the Scripts on a Woman's Purpose and Making Meaning beyond Motherhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.83 — 374 ratings — published 2022
Instead: Navigating the Adventures of a Childfree Life - A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.32 — 402 ratings — published
Well Met (Well Met, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.82 — 78,994 ratings — published 2019
“Some people really shouldn’t become parents. There’s no absolute guarantee when it comes to the love between a parent and their child.”
― The Travelling Cat Chronicles
― The Travelling Cat Chronicles
“[T]he erasure of our elderwomen in general is part of what Sheehy describes as "a conspiracy of silence which has hidden the fact of how much power older women potentially wield." Power, remember, that lies partly in the fact that women over age fifty are no longer primarily caregivers and are therefore free to play more of an active role in society at large—and that is equally born from experience and the accumulation of common sense.
Once a person has taken a few turns around the block, it becomes much harder to hoodwink them into going against their own best interests. Having lived long enough to have overcome their fair share of traumas, and to have gotten the measure of how the world works, will also make a person far less likely to believe in the next quick fix or "miracle cure." They are more likely to retire their subscription to the capitalist credo of keeping up appearances and start living by their own playbook instead.”
― Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood
Once a person has taken a few turns around the block, it becomes much harder to hoodwink them into going against their own best interests. Having lived long enough to have overcome their fair share of traumas, and to have gotten the measure of how the world works, will also make a person far less likely to believe in the next quick fix or "miracle cure." They are more likely to retire their subscription to the capitalist credo of keeping up appearances and start living by their own playbook instead.”
― Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood
