As people around the country prepare to celebrate Mother's Day, we contemplate the reality that U.S. women are having fewer children than ever before. What are the social conditions and personal decisions leading to this development, and how does it change our concepts of family and even of womanhood?
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Nayomi Munaweera |
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Grace Talusan
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Last weekend Kate Raphael caught up with
Grace Talusan and
Nayomi Munaweera at the Bay Area Book Festival. Nayomi Munaweera is the author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors and What Lies Between Us and Grace Talusan is the author of The Body Papers. Grace and Nayomi talk about how and why they chose to be child free and the positive ways that decision has impacted their lives.
Click here to listen to the show. 59:50 min
Also on today's show:
Author Jenny Brown
Comics Diane Amos and Lisa Geduldig
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