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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 46 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,412 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 — 5,624 ratings — published 2013
Childfree and Loving It! (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.97 — 488 ratings — published 2005
Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,603 ratings — published 2019
Two Is Enough: A Couple's Guide to Living Childless by Choice (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.80 — 571 ratings — published 2009
Baby Not on Board: A Celebration of Life Without Kids (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.50 — 238 ratings — published 2005
Complete Without Kids: An Insider's Guide to Childfree Living by Choice or Chance (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.33 — 418 ratings — published 2010
Regretting Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,406 ratings — published 2016
The Childless Revolution: What It Means To Be Childless Today (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.52 — 212 ratings — published 2001
The Baby Boon: How Family-Friendly America Cheats the Childless (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.63 — 103 ratings — published 2000
Olive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.67 — 21,633 ratings — published 2020
Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,327 ratings — published 2023
No Kids: 40 Good Reasons Not to Have Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.24 — 667 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 4.11 — 143 ratings — published 2013
Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,590 ratings — published 2023
Do You Have Kids?: Life When the Answer Is No (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.54 — 338 ratings — published 2019
Beyond Motherhood: Choosing Life Without Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.61 — 118 ratings — published 1996
Book Lovers (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,561,407 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
Bet Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.94 — 95,222 ratings — published 2004
No Children, No Guilt (Nook)
by (shelved 9 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.65 — 52 ratings — published 2011
Pride and Joy: The Lives and Passions of Women Without Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.73 — 55 ratings — published 1998
Motherhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.64 — 21,158 ratings — published 2018
Nobody's Mother: Life Without Kids (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.84 — 126 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 3.70 — 69 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 4.20 — 1,584 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 — 266 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 3.62 — 133 ratings — published 1999
Kidfree & Lovin' It! - Whether by Choice, Chance or Circumstance (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.76 — 37 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 3.54 — 50 ratings — published 1996
Tis the Season for Revenge (Seasons of Revenge, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.89 — 103,554 ratings — published 2022
Nigdy, nigdy, nigdy (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.16 — 10,636 ratings — published 2019
This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.08 — 331 ratings — published 2019
A Childfree Happily Ever After: Why more women are choosing not to have children (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.84 — 64 ratings — published
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 — 501 ratings — published 2014
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.08 — 213,518 ratings — published 2003
Why Have Children?: The Ethical Debate (Basic Bioethics)
by (shelved 5 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.70 — 138 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 4.03 — 493 ratings — published 2024
Radiance (Wraith Kings, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.98 — 68,594 ratings — published 2015
Instead: Navigating the Adventures of a Childfree Life - A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.34 — 344 ratings — published
Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.05 — 53,246 ratings — published 2020
Swordheart (Swordheart, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.07 — 43,517 ratings — published 2018
What We Deserve (Wishbone Tattoos, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,241 ratings — published 2021
No One Tells You This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,720 ratings — published 2018
I Don't Like Your Kids: Childfree and Proud (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as childfree)
avg rating 3.64 — 33 ratings — published
“I had really given it thought, but still, whenever I tried
to envision what it would be like to bring another human
being into this world and become half of the duo meant to
raise, protect, and love it unconditionally until death did
us part, I felt no inkling of interest or excitement to move
in that direction. Not once.
How was that possible? Motherhood as the epicentre of
women’s lives was all I’d ever witnessed, so how was it that
the centre was not there when it came to my own life?
Was I hollow, or was my centre elsewhere?”
―
to envision what it would be like to bring another human
being into this world and become half of the duo meant to
raise, protect, and love it unconditionally until death did
us part, I felt no inkling of interest or excitement to move
in that direction. Not once.
How was that possible? Motherhood as the epicentre of
women’s lives was all I’d ever witnessed, so how was it that
the centre was not there when it came to my own life?
Was I hollow, or was my centre elsewhere?”
―
“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
