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Selfish reasons to have more kids : why being a great parent is less work and more fun than you think / Bryan Caplan. - New York : Basic Books, c2011. - x, 228 p. ; 25 cm.
You count too : a common-sense guide to happier parenting -- The case against guilt : a parent's guide to behavioral genetics -- Behavioral genetics : can it be true and what does it mean? -- What about the children? kids today are safer than ever -- Enlightened family planning : how many kids do you want when you're sixty? -- Your kids are good for you : but are they good for the world? -- Selfish guidelines for want-to-be grandparents -- Life-giving science: what it means for you -- Be fruitful and multiply: four chats on kids, parenting, happiness, and self-interest.
Contrarian economist Bryan Caplan takes on family planning and happiness--and turns conventional wisdom on its head.
9780465018673 (hardcover : alk. paper) 046501867X (hardcover : alk. paper)
2010040085
Parenting.
Parenthood.
Children.
306.874 Cap 9
Selfish reasons to have more kids : why being a great parent is less work and more fun than you think / Bryan Caplan. - New York : Basic Books, c2011. - x, 228 p. ; 25 cm.
You count too : a common-sense guide to happier parenting -- The case against guilt : a parent's guide to behavioral genetics -- Behavioral genetics : can it be true and what does it mean? -- What about the children? kids today are safer than ever -- Enlightened family planning : how many kids do you want when you're sixty? -- Your kids are good for you : but are they good for the world? -- Selfish guidelines for want-to-be grandparents -- Life-giving science: what it means for you -- Be fruitful and multiply: four chats on kids, parenting, happiness, and self-interest.
Contrarian economist Bryan Caplan takes on family planning and happiness--and turns conventional wisdom on its head.
9780465018673 (hardcover : alk. paper) 046501867X (hardcover : alk. paper)
2010040085
Parenting.
Parenthood.
Children.
306.874 Cap 9