A child is the joy of life, and sometimes its meaning. So we think today, but even a hundred years ago, children in the family were extra hands. In poor families, teenagers sometimes earned more than their fathers. The changed view of childhood has created a strange paradox: we want to make our children happy and at the same time hold them responsible for how happy we ourselves are. How this affects family relationships is explored by anthropologist Jennifer Senior, who gathered the opinions of parents, child psychologists, cultural historians and other specialists. Her Paradox was on the New York Times bestseller list for 8 weeks and was named one of the top 10 books of the past year.
Eksmo, 352 p., 2018.