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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Prologue
Introduction
1: The “Desire for Children”: A Silly Idea
2: Labour is Torture
3: You Avoid Becoming a Walking Pacifier
4: You Get to Keep Having Fun
5: Rat Race Plus Rugrats: No Thanks!
6: You Keep Your Friends
7: You won’t Have to Use that Idiot Language When Talking to Kids
8: Open the Nursery, Close the Bedroom
9: Kids are the Death of Desire
10: Kids are the Death Knell of the Couple
11: To be or to do: Don’t Decide
12: “The Child is a Sort of Vicious, Innately Cruel Dwarf” (Michel Houellebecq)
13: Kids are Conformists
14: Kids are a Treasure, and will Cost You One
15: Kids are Unbiased Allies of Capitalism
16: A Brain Teaser: How to Keep Kids Busy
17: The Parent’s Worst Nightmares
18: Don’t be Fooled by the “Ideal Child” Illusion
19: Your Kid will Always Disappoint You
20: The Horror of Becoming a Merdeuf
21: Parent Above All? No, than!? You
22: Keep the Experts at Bay
23: The Family: A Horror
24: Don’t Revert to Childhood
25: It Takes Real Courage to Keep Saying, “Me First”
26: Kids Signal the End of Your Youthful Dreams
27: You can’t Stop Yourself from Wanting Your Kids to be Happy
28: You can’t Get Away from Your Kids
29: Get Used to it: School is a Boot Camp
30: “Raise” a Child…But Toward What?
31: Avoid Benevolent Neutrality Like the Plague
32: Parenthood is a Sad, Sweet Song
33: Motherhood is a Trap for Women
34: Motherhood or Success: Pick One
35: When the Child Appears, the Father Disappears
36: Today’s Child is the Perfect Child: Welcome to the Best of All Possible Worlds
37: Danger, Child Ahead
38: Why Wear Yourself Out for a Future that doesn’t Include You?
39: There are too Many Children in the World
40: Reject the Absurd Ten Commandments of the “Good” Parent.
Conclusion
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