Hannah's Children
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A portrait of America's most interesting yet overlooked women.
In the midst of a historic "birth dearth," why do some 5 percent of American women choose to defy the demographic norm by bearing five or more children? Hannah’s Children is a compelling portrait of these overlooked but fascinating mothers who, like the biblical Hannah, see their children as their purpose, their contribution, and their greatest blessing.
The social scientist Catherine Pakaluk, herself the mother of eight, traveled across the United States and interviewed fifty-five college-educated women who were raising five or more children. Through open-ended questions, she sought to understand who these women are, why and when they chose to have a large family, and what this choice means for them, their families, and the nation.
Hannah’s Children is more than interesting stories of extraordinary women. It presents information that is urgently relevant for the future of American prosperity. Many countries have experimented with aggressively pro-natalist public policies, and all of them have failed. Pakaluk finds that the quantitative methods to which the social sciences limit themselves overlook important questions of meaning and identity in their inquiries into fertility rates. Her book is a pathbreaking foray into questions of purpose, religion, transcendence, healing, and growth—questions that ought to inform economic inquiry in the future.
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- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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America is in crisis. Happiness is falling, loneliness and despair are rising, too many schools are riddled by fights and failure, crime is unacceptably high, and the American Dream is out of reach for millions. The problems are visible to us all, but virtually no one is talking about the solution that matters most: Marriage. New research by University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox shows that Americans who get married and have children today are leading happier and more prosperous lives, on average, than men and women who are single and childless.
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Excellent lessons in the value of marriage
- By Lena on 06-02-24
By: Brad Wilcox
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What Are Children For?
- On Ambivalence and Choice
- By: Anastasia Berg, Rachel Wiseman
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens, Kirsten Potter, Zura Johnson
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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Becoming a parent, once the expected outcome of adulthood, is increasingly viewed as a potential threat to the most basic goals and aspirations of modern life. We seek self-fulfillment; we want to liberate women to find meaning and self-worth outside the home; and we wish to protect the planet from the ravages of climate change. Weighing the pros and cons of having children, millennials and zoomers are finding it increasingly difficult to judge in its favor. With lucid argument and passionate prose, Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman offer the guidance necessary to move beyond uncertainty.
By: Anastasia Berg, and others
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From the Village to the Ends of the Earth
- Living and Working with a Bibleless People to Bring Them the Word of God
- By: Lisa Leidenfrost
- Narrated by: Lisa Leidenfrost
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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In this sequel to At the End of the Village, Lisa Leidenfrost describes life in her village in Côte d' Ivoire. Although there are exciting stories about the local witch doctor and escaping from a civil war, life as a missionary is often surprisingly normal. Family life need not be crowded out by frenetic translation schedules and fundraising furloughs.
By: Lisa Leidenfrost
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Take Back Your Family
- From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal
- By: Jefferson Bethke
- Narrated by: Jefferson Bethke
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
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Toxic hyper-individualism. Widespread brokenness. America’s family model isn’t working. Ever wonder if it’s time to opt out? New York Times best-selling author Jefferson Bethke gives you the tools you need to grow your family with intention and delight. The practical ideas and true stories from families in all walks of life will give you the push you need to discover a completely new yet ancient way to do family.
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Don’t waste your money / time
- By Chris on 02-24-22
By: Jefferson Bethke
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Feminism Against Progress
- By: Mary Harrington
- Narrated by: Mary Harrington
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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In Feminism Against Progress, Mary Harrington argues that the industrial-era faith in progress is turning against all but a tiny elite of women. Women's liberation was less the result of human moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the Industrial Revolution.
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Author/Narrator sets the right tone
- By Marie on 05-21-23
By: Mary Harrington
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Family Unfriendly
- How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder than It Needs to Be
- By: Timothy P. Carney
- Narrated by: Timothy P. Carney
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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Our culture tells parents there's one best way to raise kids: enroll them in a dozen activities, protect them from trauma, and get them into the most expensive college you can. If you can't do that, don't bother. How is that going? Record rates of anxiety, depression, medication, debts, loneliness and more. In Family Unfriendly, bestselling author and Washington Examiner columnist Timothy P. Carney says it's time to end this failed experiment in overparenting.
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Much needed spotlight on our cultural norms
- By Christopher Milner on 12-14-24
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Get Married
- Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization
- By: Brad Wilcox
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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America is in crisis. Happiness is falling, loneliness and despair are rising, too many schools are riddled by fights and failure, crime is unacceptably high, and the American Dream is out of reach for millions. The problems are visible to us all, but virtually no one is talking about the solution that matters most: Marriage. New research by University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox shows that Americans who get married and have children today are leading happier and more prosperous lives, on average, than men and women who are single and childless.
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Excellent lessons in the value of marriage
- By Lena on 06-02-24
By: Brad Wilcox
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What Are Children For?
- On Ambivalence and Choice
- By: Anastasia Berg, Rachel Wiseman
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens, Kirsten Potter, Zura Johnson
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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Becoming a parent, once the expected outcome of adulthood, is increasingly viewed as a potential threat to the most basic goals and aspirations of modern life. We seek self-fulfillment; we want to liberate women to find meaning and self-worth outside the home; and we wish to protect the planet from the ravages of climate change. Weighing the pros and cons of having children, millennials and zoomers are finding it increasingly difficult to judge in its favor. With lucid argument and passionate prose, Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman offer the guidance necessary to move beyond uncertainty.
By: Anastasia Berg, and others
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From the Village to the Ends of the Earth
- Living and Working with a Bibleless People to Bring Them the Word of God
- By: Lisa Leidenfrost
- Narrated by: Lisa Leidenfrost
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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In this sequel to At the End of the Village, Lisa Leidenfrost describes life in her village in Côte d' Ivoire. Although there are exciting stories about the local witch doctor and escaping from a civil war, life as a missionary is often surprisingly normal. Family life need not be crowded out by frenetic translation schedules and fundraising furloughs.
By: Lisa Leidenfrost
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Take Back Your Family
- From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal
- By: Jefferson Bethke
- Narrated by: Jefferson Bethke
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
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Toxic hyper-individualism. Widespread brokenness. America’s family model isn’t working. Ever wonder if it’s time to opt out? New York Times best-selling author Jefferson Bethke gives you the tools you need to grow your family with intention and delight. The practical ideas and true stories from families in all walks of life will give you the push you need to discover a completely new yet ancient way to do family.
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Don’t waste your money / time
- By Chris on 02-24-22
By: Jefferson Bethke
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Feminism Against Progress
- By: Mary Harrington
- Narrated by: Mary Harrington
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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In Feminism Against Progress, Mary Harrington argues that the industrial-era faith in progress is turning against all but a tiny elite of women. Women's liberation was less the result of human moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the Industrial Revolution.
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Author/Narrator sets the right tone
- By Marie on 05-21-23
By: Mary Harrington
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Saving My Assassin
- By: Virginia Prodan
- Narrated by: Matilda Novak
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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At just under five feet tall, Virginia Prodan was no match for the towering six-foot-ten-inch, gun-wielding assassin the Romanian government sent to her office to take her life. It was not the first time her life had been threatened - nor would it be the last. As a young attorney under Nicolae Ceausescu's brutal communist regime, Virginia had spent her entire life searching for the truth.
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Saving My Assassin--A powerful true story
- By deb on 08-10-17
By: Virginia Prodan
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The End of Woman
- How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us
- By: Carrie Gress
- Narrated by: Monroe Jillian
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
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Fellow at Ethic & Public Policy Center, scholar at The Institute for Human Ecology at CUA and the nationally best-selling author of the Theology of Home series, Carrie Gress argues that fifty years of radical feminism have had the opposite of the intended effect and have granted primacy of place to the traditionally male sphere of life, while simultaneously devaluing the typical attributes, virtues, and strengths of women.
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A dark look into the religious right’s hatred of women
- By Shevaun Bastarache on 10-30-23
By: Carrie Gress
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Domestic Extremist
- A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War
- By: Peachy Keenan
- Narrated by: Peachy Keenan
- Length: 11 hrs
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Spot-on, often satirical, always insightful, contributing editor of The American Mind and mother of a brood Peachy Keenan argues that the only way we can save our families, ourselves, and the world—even California!—is by embracing our inner domestic extremists, and sweeping failed notions of third wave feminism and identity politics nonsense into the garbage can of history.
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The overall sentiment is 100% spot on, but author shamed women struggling with fertility.
- By Morgan on 08-13-23
By: Peachy Keenan
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The Two-Parent Privilege
- How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
- By: Melissa S. Kearney
- Narrated by: Cait Raymond
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a data-driven case for marriage by showing how the institution's decline has led to a host of economic woes—problems that have fractured American society and rendered vulnerable populations even more vulnerable.
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Get the printed or ebook version!
- By Wayne on 03-10-24
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A Mother's Rule of Life
- How to Bring Order to Your Home and Peace to Your Soul
- By: Holly Pierlot
- Narrated by: Tabatha Bartlett
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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Do you want to be a better wife and mother? To have more order in your life? To grow in union with God? Are you desperate yet? With your own Mother's Rule of Life, you'll transform motherhood and its burdens into the joyful vocation it's meant to be. Learn from Holly Pierlot how to craft a Rule that's right for you and your family. Then use that Rule to help God draw you, your husband, and each of your children into Heaven!
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a must read for all catholic mothers!
- By Rita on 07-24-21
By: Holly Pierlot
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Digital Zettelkasten
- Principles, Methods, & Examples
- By: David Kadavy
- Narrated by: David Kadavy
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
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The Zettelkasten method is the perfect way to harness the power of technology to remember what you read and boost creativity. Invented in the 16th century and practiced to its fullest extent by a German sociologist who wrote 70 books and hundreds of articles, the Zettelkasten method is exploding in popularity. Writers of all types are discovering that digital tools make the method more powerful than ever, turning your digital life into an “external brain” or “bicycle for the mind”.
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Not much info
- By J-Murphy on 01-19-22
By: David Kadavy
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What Is Marriage?
- Man and Woman: A Defense
- By: Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, Robert George
- Narrated by: Claton Butcher
- Length: 4 hrs
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Until very recently, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partnership: a male-female union. What Is Marriage? identifies and defends the reasons for this historic consensus and shows why redefining civil marriage as something other than the conjugal union of husband and wife is a mistake. Originally published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, this book’s core argument quickly became the year’s most widely read essay on the most prominent scholarly network in the social sciences.
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Excellent analysis.
- By vivacia on 03-16-21
By: Sherif Girgis, and others
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The Lifegiving Home
- Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming
- By: Sally Clarkson, Sarah Clarkson
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Does your home sometimes feel like just a place to eat, sleep, and change clothes on the way to the next activity? Do you long for "home" to mean more than a place where you stash your stuff? Wouldn't you love it to become a haven of warmth, rest, and joy...the one place where you and your family can't wait to be? There is good news waiting for you in The Lifegiving Home. Every day of your family's life can be as special and important to you as it already is to God.
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This book left me feeling completely inadequate
- By Elizabeth higley on 04-01-18
By: Sally Clarkson, and others
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Bad Therapy
- Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
- By: Abigail Shrier
- Narrated by: Abigail Shrier
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z’s mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who are lonely, lost, sad and fearful of growing up. What’s gone wrong with America’s youth? In Bad Therapy, bestselling investigative journalist Abigail Shrier argues that the problem isn’t the kids—it’s the mental health experts.
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No real data
- By brandi olmstead on 03-02-24
By: Abigail Shrier
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Them Before Us
- Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement
- By: Katy Faust, Stacy Manning
- Narrated by: Katy Faust
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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This well-researched book identifies the wide-ranging harms resulting from mother- and father-loss, and it provides a roadmap for effective children’s rights advocacy. Whether you’re seeking to make sense of your own fractured childhood, or yearn to prevent similar struggles for the next generation, Them Before Us will equip you to be the adult who should have advocated for you as a child. By defending children’s rights, we protect the heart of every child and set a course that will decimate a myriad of the social ills currently plaguing our world.
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well...
- By Milea Kirst on 12-12-24
By: Katy Faust, and others
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Regime Change
- Toward a Postliberal Future
- By: Patrick J. Deneen
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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From Notre Dame professor and author of Why Liberalism Failed comes a provocative call for replacing the tyranny of the self-serving liberal elite with conservative leaders aligned with the interests of the working class.
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A New Political Vision
- By SMW on 06-14-23
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Simplified Organization
- Learn to Love What Must Be Done
- By: Mystie Winckler
- Narrated by: Mystie Winckler
- Length: 6 hrs
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Let’s be real. Homemaking is harder than we thought it’d be. Others make it look easy, but we end the day exhausted with so much left to do. We feel unprepared. This book will shift your perspective on homemaking and guide you through six steps to competently and cheerfully manage your home.
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Life changing. Needs a new title!
- By KCKamazon616 on 05-14-24
By: Mystie Winckler
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- Anonymous
- 09-07-24
Inspiring and well read
This book changed my perspective on raising children and helped me overcome fears of taking the plunge on that first child. The narrator was engaging and pleasant to listen to. The many stories warmed my heart. Often the stories of family love and relationships brought tears to my eyes. Some parts of the book were more complex and fact filled and required undivided attention to follow. Mostly though it was a narrative of enjoyable interviews and conclusions and similarities gathered from them. I highly recommend this book.
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- RMNN
- 07-13-24
Fascinating Insights
I loved hearing the personal stories of each mom. They all had such fascinating insights. This would be good for all moms and dads to listen to even if they have smaller families because of insightful reflections on family in general. Narrator did an exceptional job.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-06-25
Compelling Listen.
I enjoyed listening to the authors interviews. All these women have been called by God to have large families and they shared wisdom that families with less than 4 children could learn from and creatively work to instill in their children. I myself am a college educated female who waited too long to have more than my three children. I share the same views as these women and hope to encourage my daughters to consider children and family more important than a career.
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- NF
- 04-29-24
an economist's analytical approach layered atop a mother's nuanced perspective.
Excellent content-rich interviews with each of the mothers, chapter by chapter. Thought-Provoking and challenging, for sure. fascinating to hear from the 5% bucking the downward spiral of the birth dearth, and giving birth to Hannah's children.
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- mike01
- 10-28-24
Love it!!
I love this book so much - it speaks to my soul!! I’ve been saddened hearing many of my peers decide not to have children (I’m in my late 20’s), and I am so encouraged by these women quietly defying the birth dearth. Sharing this with all my friends!!
The narrator also did an excellent job!! She truly brought the women’s stories to life by her voice acting!! Bravo!!
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- Kathy
- 05-24-24
A must-read for all women of childbearing age!
As a mom of six children, aged 36 to 15, this book hits every nail on the head (including a few I hadn’t considered). I pray other moms are moved to increase their joy by increasing their family size. Psalm 127:3-5
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- Mary
- 08-11-24
Couldn’t stop listening
This book was amazing. It’s packed full of facts, yet I, a person who only enjoys novels, couldn’t stop listening. Bravo!
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- Kaitlyn Johnson
- 12-05-24
Thought provoking and heartwarming
This was a great read! How the author weaves the stories of the women she interviewed was great. Definitely a good book.
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- Simone & Malcolm Collins
- 12-02-24
Life Changing
In addition to providing the most sound policy I've read in a book when it comes to actually boosting birth rates (support and empower religious communities and religious education), this book yields a treasure trove of insights through a myriad of interviews with deeply invested parents. I came into this book hoping, personally, for at least seven, maybe eight, kids. I came out hoping for ten or.... really as many as I can have. This book helped me feel ok with embracing the fact that, for me, having and raising kids is the most meaningful thing I can do with my life. Getting to hear about the lives and experiences and perspectives of others who have decided the same helped me feel comfortable leaning in. In other words, this book does its part to create a feeling of pronatalist camaraderie and community for those living in otherwise antinatalist zones. As such, it doesn't just point to the solution; it is part of it.
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- Brian
- 01-17-25
Life changing…for me
I loved this book!
I’ve been struggling with the idea of knowing when it’s time for me to close the chapter of my childbearing journey but this book has helped me put things into perspective and has given me a peace about what I’d like to see for that journey. Phenomenal book and really appreciate the author taking the time to research and publish on a topic that’s so controversial.
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