Award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior attempts to analyze the effects children have on their parents, examining in various ways how children reshape their parents' lives, including their marriages, professional occupations, habits, hobbies, and friendships. She argues that changes over the past half-century have transformed the roles of today's mothers and fathers, making their duties more complex and less clear.

With the help of a wide variety of sources - from history, sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy to anthropology - she breaks down the timeless challenges of parenting and the new challenges, bringing her research to life within the homes of ordinary parents across the country. The result is a unique series of family portraits, starting from parents of young children and moving on to parents of teenagers.

Through lively and accessible narration, Senior observes these parents struggling with the deeper dissatisfactions of parenting - and enjoying some of its greatest rewards. The book "All Joy and No Fun" makes us reassess some of the most basic beliefs of our culture about parenting, while simultaneously highlighting the profound ways children enrich and add purpose to our lives. It is an authentic and necessary read for the mothers and fathers of today - and tomorrow.

Pages: 320, Year of Publication: 0512, Dimensions: 13x13cm