The Baby Boon: How Family-Friendly America Cheats the Childless - Hardcover

Michelangelo Signorile author of "Life Outside" and "Queer in America"Finally, someone's got the guts to point to the elephant in the room: that America discriminates, sometimes quite shamelessly, against those who do not have children. No one better could be making this clarion call than the compelling, relentless truth-teller, Elinor Burkett. "The Baby Boon" speaks for so many of us who stay silent, fearful of being tarred as "anti-family." But Burkett's is not a book that is "anti" anything. "The Baby Boon" is about inclusivity and fairness, about the American values of equality and justice. A meticulous journalist with facts and figures in hand, she makes a case that simply cannot be dismissed.

Elinor Burkett was a professor of history before becoming a journalist. She won numerous awards for her work at The Miami Herald and has written articles for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, and Mirabella. She most recently won the Front Page Award from the Newswomen's Club of New York for the article that inspired The Baby Boon. Her five previous books include The Greatest Show on Earth and The Right Women. She divides her time between the Catskills and New York City.