Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

Bryan Caplan · An economist's contrarian case that parenting is easier and more rewarding than people assume.

3 people say it helped them, in their own words on Hacker News.

What people said

I've definitely changed my attitude as a result and it's made parenting much more pleasant. I'm not totally checked out, I'm still doing the best I can, but I'm not as anxious about how what I'm doing affects my daughter.

Bryan Caplan's book Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids helped me calm down a lot about this topic.

basically taught me to just relax and have fun as a parent, and not worry that I am messing everything up

Description from Open Library

Contrarian economist Bryan Caplan takes on family planning and happiness--and turns conventional wisdom on its head.

What people got from it AI summary

Best if you feel anxious about parenting and want permission to relax and enjoy it.

• Eased parenting anxiety
• Taught relaxed parenting
• Calmed worries about parenthood

Style

Big-picture thinking · 228 pages

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