Book Review: Do You Have Kids?: Life When the Answer Is No by Kate Kaufmann

Title:  Do You Have Kids?: Life When the Answer Is No 

Author: Kate Kaufmann 

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Review:
While yes I do have kids this book isn't just for women without kids.  It is about how women communicate with each other with or without having children. The author uses a approach that might offend some while others will cheer her very open expression on why someone choose a childless life or those who are not able to have children.
The author uses stories from women all over and from every aspect of life. The stories are heart breaking to inspiring. 
Do you have kids is also full of stats and different studies which readers can take with a grain of salt or investigate more.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher She Writes Press advance copy of Kate Kaufmann Do You Have Kids


Synopsis:
Today about one in five American women will never have children, whether by choice or by destiny. Yet few women talk much about what not having kids means to their lives and identities. Not that they don’t want to; there just aren’t obvious catalysts for such open conversations. In fact, social taboos preclude exploration of the topic—and since our family-centric culture doesn’t know quite what to do with non-parents, there’s potential for childless and childfree women to be sidelined, ignored, or drowned out. Yet there’s widespread, pent-up demand for understanding and validating this perfectly normal way of being. In this straight-shooting, exhaustively researched book, women without kids talk candidly about the ways in which their lives differ from societal norms and expectations—the good, the bad, and the unexpected.

Kindle Edition

Expected publication: April 2nd 2019 by She Writes Press

About The Author:

Kate Kaufmann is fascinated by how women who don't have children craft their lives. There are no navigation charts for life outside the mainstream of motherhood.

Kate got her first inkling how different life as a non-mom can be after she and her former husband abandoned infertility treatments, quit their corporate jobs, and moved from a suburb in an excellent school district to a rural community to raise sheep. Everyone in the country seemed to have kids. So began her quest for identity as a non-mom in a culture high on family.

Since 2012 Kate has talked intimately with hundreds of North American women who don't have children, ranging in age from twenty-four to ninety-one. She's relentless in her search for pertinent data about not having kids in both the academic and popular press. Kate has also had the privilege of speaking about the childfree and childless with organizations such as AARP, the Oregon Community Foundation, and several colleges, universities, and retirement communities.

Kate has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, an M.A. in Management, and a B.A. in Psychology, as well as professional background in corporate staffing, training, and consulting. She's lived in various urban, suburban, rural, and coastal communities and currently calls Portland, Oregon home. Kate is proud of knowing how to drive a tractor.