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Having Children

Will Self reflects on the growing and vexed divide between people with and without children.

Will Self reflects on the growing and vexed divide between people with and without children. "The real indication that we don't know what value parenting currently has is that to either valorise or demonise this state of being seems as ridiculous (if not offensive) as doing the same in respect of childlessness".
Producer: Sheila Cook.

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Sun 8 Feb 2015 08:48

A Point of View: Can parents and non-parents ever understand each other?

A Point of View: Can parents and non-parents ever understand each other?

There's little clear debate about why people choose to have children, or to remain childless, says the novelist Will Self.

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Presenter Will Self
Producer Sheila Cook

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  • Fri 6 Feb 2015 20:50
  • Sun 8 Feb 2015 08:48

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