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hidekisohma's review
4.0
As a member of the childfree community, this book's been on my radar for a while (mainly because of the title) and i finally got it as a gift and wanted to immediately read it.
So this book basically goes over the major bullet points that most childfree people know. The reasons we want to be childfree, the hardships we get from those with kids, and his thoughts on the subject.
While these are all things we've heard and seen in our lives, it's nice to put it into words in the format of a written down book.
One thing i really liked about this book was that it was written by a guy. A lot of childfree books i have read are written by women and hardly every mention childfree men, and when they do, dismiss them as "not statistically relevant" or "they don't get it as bad as women" which is a lie. they just don't know about it because they don't have experience being a man who's childfree. So it was very nice to get a male perspective on the matter with this book.
Also, I enjoyed his perspective of "I don't like kids" which is also refreshing because most CF books dance around the subject and try to say things like "oh no! it's not that we dislike kids or anything!" like saying you don't like children is equivalent to slapping their mother.
To detract in this book i would say that his personal preferences and lifestyle are not that of mine, such as talking about art galleries and trips to europe/wine tasting etc, but that's all right. He just has different sorts of tastes, and that can lend well in showing there's all sorts of childfree men.
The book got repetitive at points, essentially stating similar points more than once, but it never got the point of irritation for me. It's a very quick read at around 150 pages, but was quite enjoyable for a self-published. There might have been a few grammatical errors here and there but they were negligible and I barely noticed them if there were any.
There need to be more books like this, self published or otherwise, as a text to explain to those who have children that it's fine that you want them, but we don't want to be in your club of having/wanting kids. It doesn't make us selfish or childish. We just don't like kids or want them. it's that simple.
I appreciate this book for giving us CF men a voice and was happy to support the author. Due to the language, length, subject matter, and overall enjoyment, i have no problem giving this book a 4 out of 5.
So this book basically goes over the major bullet points that most childfree people know. The reasons we want to be childfree, the hardships we get from those with kids, and his thoughts on the subject.
While these are all things we've heard and seen in our lives, it's nice to put it into words in the format of a written down book.
One thing i really liked about this book was that it was written by a guy. A lot of childfree books i have read are written by women and hardly every mention childfree men, and when they do, dismiss them as "not statistically relevant" or "they don't get it as bad as women" which is a lie. they just don't know about it because they don't have experience being a man who's childfree. So it was very nice to get a male perspective on the matter with this book.
Also, I enjoyed his perspective of "I don't like kids" which is also refreshing because most CF books dance around the subject and try to say things like "oh no! it's not that we dislike kids or anything!" like saying you don't like children is equivalent to slapping their mother.
To detract in this book i would say that his personal preferences and lifestyle are not that of mine, such as talking about art galleries and trips to europe/wine tasting etc, but that's all right. He just has different sorts of tastes, and that can lend well in showing there's all sorts of childfree men.
The book got repetitive at points, essentially stating similar points more than once, but it never got the point of irritation for me. It's a very quick read at around 150 pages, but was quite enjoyable for a self-published. There might have been a few grammatical errors here and there but they were negligible and I barely noticed them if there were any.
There need to be more books like this, self published or otherwise, as a text to explain to those who have children that it's fine that you want them, but we don't want to be in your club of having/wanting kids. It doesn't make us selfish or childish. We just don't like kids or want them. it's that simple.
I appreciate this book for giving us CF men a voice and was happy to support the author. Due to the language, length, subject matter, and overall enjoyment, i have no problem giving this book a 4 out of 5.
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