jean86 's review for:

Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth by Catherine Pakaluk

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None of this was surprising to me. The women who have 5 or more children do so because they believe children are worth the sacrifice. We are not tax incentivizing our way out of the low birth rate. The interviews became repetitive after a few chapters, and I do wish they were a little more edited. I think this book would be hard to read if you struggle with infertility. I did find her accidental findings on infant mortality and birth rates interesting but again not surprising. A trend she observed was those mothers who lost a child saw life as precious and were open to having more children even after such a devastating loss.