Media coverage

Reviews of What Are Children For?

• Wall Street Journal, “Three Books on What Being a Parent Really Means” by Jennifer Frey (August 23, 2024)

• Law & Liberty, “The Progressive Case for Parenthood” by Elizabeth Grace Matthew (August 16, 2024)

• The Dispatch, “‘What Are Children For?’ Can’t Remain a Question Forever” by Elayne Allen (August 10, 2024)

• The Atlantic, “The Real Reason People Aren’t Having Kids” by Christine Emba (August 1, 2024)

• Compact, “The Poverty of Secular Pro-Natalism” by Leila Meichoui (July 31, 2024)

• First Things, “Why Millennials Aren’t Having Children” by Luke Lyman (July 29, 2024)

• New Statesman, “Generation Not Yet” by Ann Manov (July 25, 2024)

• Washington Post, “Why Are Today’s Young People Ambivalent About Having Kids?” by Katha Pollitt (July 18, 2024)

• Christianity Today, “Kids Aren’t Cheap. That Doesn’t Fully Explain Why We’re Ambivalent About Having Them” by Bonnie Kristian (June 12, 2024)

• New Yorker, “How Liberals Talk About Children” by Jay Caspian Kang (June 7, 2024)

• Library Journal, “What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice” by Julia M. Reffner (May 1, 2024)

• Publishers Weekly, “What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice” (March 18, 2024)

• Kirkus Reviews, “What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice” (January 25, 2024)

Podcasts & radio

• Wisdom of Crowds, “What Are Children For?” with Damir Marusic and Christine Emba (August 9, 2024)

• On Nonfiction, “Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman, Authors of What Are Children For?” with Callie Hitchcock (August 6, 2024)

• Manifesto Podcast, “Should We Bring Children into Existence?” with Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel (July 25, 2024)

• WOSU Public Media, All Sides, “Why Americans Aren’t Having Children” with Anna Staver (July 30, 2024)

• Plain English, “The Radical Cultural Shift Behind America’s Declining Birth Rate” with Derek Thompson (June 21, 2024)

• Commonweal, “How to Talk About Having Kids” with Dominic Preziosi (June 13, 2024)

• KSL NewsRadio Inside Sources, “Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman: Keep Children Out of the Culture Wars” with Boyd Mathesen (June 12, 2024)

• Time to Say Goodbye, “What Are Children For?: A talk with Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman about their new book” with Jay Caspian Kang and Tyler Harper Austin (June 5, 2024)

Interviews & features

• Good Housekeeping UK, “Why Motherhood Has Become a Tougher Decision for Women” by Joanna Moorhead (July 1, 2024)

• Publishers Weekly, “New Books on Deciding Whether to Have Children” by Pooja Makhijani (January 5, 2024)