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Childfree Books
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,518 ratings — published 2015
I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.54 — 5,627 ratings — published 2013
Childfree and Loving It! (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.97 — 487 ratings — published 2005
Two Is Enough: A Couple's Guide to Living Childless by Choice (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.80 — 570 ratings — published 2009
Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,656 ratings — published 2019
Baby Not on Board: A Celebration of Life Without Kids (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.50 — 236 ratings — published 2005
Regretting Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,576 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 — 425 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 14 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,457 ratings — published 2023
Olive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.67 — 22,616 ratings — published 2020
No Kids: 40 Good Reasons Not to Have Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.23 — 686 ratings — published 2007
Confessions of a Childfree Woman: A Life Spent Swimming Against the Mainstream (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.12 — 145 ratings — published 2013
Do You Have Kids?: Life When the Answer Is No (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.54 — 337 ratings — published 2019
Beyond Motherhood: Choosing Life Without Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.61 — 118 ratings — published 1996
Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,655 ratings — published 2023
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,639,729 ratings — published 2022
No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.60 — 497 ratings — published 2013
Bet Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.94 — 95,577 ratings — published 2004
No Children, No Guilt (Nook)
by (shelved 9 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.67 — 51 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
Motherhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.64 — 21,761 ratings — published 2018
Nobody's Mother: Life Without Kids (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.84 — 127 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 3.64 — 70 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 4.17 — 1,881 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 3.63 — 271 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 3.61 — 132 ratings — published 1999
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 3.53 — 49 ratings — published 1996
Tis the Season for Revenge (Seasons of Revenge, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.89 — 104,118 ratings — published 2022
Swordheart (Swordheart, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.06 — 50,946 ratings — published 2018
What We Deserve (Wishbone Tattoos, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,375 ratings — published 2021
This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.08 — 335 ratings — published 2019
Kid Me Not: An anthology by child-free women of the '60s now in their 60s (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.74 — 503 ratings — published 2014
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.08 — 219,920 ratings — published 2003
Why Have Children?: The Ethical Debate (Basic Bioethics)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.71 — 142 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
Others Like Me: The Lives of Women without Children (Audiobook)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.99 — 568 ratings — published 2024
The Worst Guy (Vital Signs, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,348 ratings — published 2021
Radiance (Wraith Kings, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.98 — 69,843 ratings — published 2015
Instead: Navigating the Adventures of a Childfree Life - A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.33 — 381 ratings — published
Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.04 — 60,558 ratings — published 2020
Nigdy, nigdy, nigdy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,480 ratings — published 2019
No One Tells You This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.90 — 5,841 ratings — published 2018
A Childfree Happily Ever After: Why more women are choosing not to have children (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.84 — 64 ratings — published
“It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.”
― Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
― Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
“Mi chiamo Aurora, ho trentanove anni e non voglio avere figli. Non ho alibi o traumi alle spalle per giustificare la mia decisione, è così e basta.
Quando lo dico mi guardano come se fossi quella strana, anticonformista per copione, egoista per convenienza. Nel migliore dei casi, sono una che reprime il suo istinto materno perchè ha avuto un rapporto conflittuale con la sua, di madre. La verità è che ho avuto due genitori amorevoli e presenti, che mi sono stati accanto nei momenti di gioia e in quelli bui.
(...) come se fossi una povera scema immatura, che aspira una vita a metà. Non madre, dunque incompleta. Non puoi completarti come preferisci, o, magari, desiderare di rimanere come sei. No, l'incompletezza è un diritto maschile. A volte ho l'impressione che la mia scelta susciti una forma di gelosia, come se qualcuno fosse riuscito ad avvisarmi in tempo del pericolo. Childfree, ci chiamano, free come se fossimo del tutto libere, e invece siamo costantemente prigionieredei pregiudizi, delle aspettative sociali, delle speranze mal riposte.”
― Il rosmarino non capisce l'inverno
Quando lo dico mi guardano come se fossi quella strana, anticonformista per copione, egoista per convenienza. Nel migliore dei casi, sono una che reprime il suo istinto materno perchè ha avuto un rapporto conflittuale con la sua, di madre. La verità è che ho avuto due genitori amorevoli e presenti, che mi sono stati accanto nei momenti di gioia e in quelli bui.
(...) come se fossi una povera scema immatura, che aspira una vita a metà. Non madre, dunque incompleta. Non puoi completarti come preferisci, o, magari, desiderare di rimanere come sei. No, l'incompletezza è un diritto maschile. A volte ho l'impressione che la mia scelta susciti una forma di gelosia, come se qualcuno fosse riuscito ad avvisarmi in tempo del pericolo. Childfree, ci chiamano, free come se fossimo del tutto libere, e invece siamo costantemente prigionieredei pregiudizi, delle aspettative sociali, delle speranze mal riposte.”
― Il rosmarino non capisce l'inverno
