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Anne-Marie Ambert
The Effect of Children on Parents

(New York: Haworth Press, 1992) 308 pages
(ISBN: 1-56024-117-9; hardcover)
(ISBN: 1-56024-118-7; paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: HQ755.8.A47 1991)

A careful documentation of the negative effects
of children on parents
--based on printed sources
and some original research with college students.
Children affect their parents in the following areas:
health; housing and living space; employment patterns;
economic burdens; changed relationship with spouse;
life-plans; sense of control over life.
Special problems receive separate chapters: juvenile delinquency;
children's emotional problems; the family of divorce;
children with severe chronic illnesses; PMS and motherhood;
racial identity problems from 'mixed' marriages;
grown children who blame their parents for their problems.
This is one of the few books
examining the negative impacts of having children.

Some other books asking questions about parenthood
will be found by searching the Internet for:
"Books Exploring the Decision to Have Children".