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

Americans are on a demographic collision course between the growing numbers of mothers in the workforce and the swelling ranks of a new interest childless adults. Armed with hard data and grassroots reporting, Elinor Burkett points the way to a more equitable future.

With an inside look at what some companies are already doing to redress the grievances of childless workers and a hard assessment of what the truly needy — children and adults — require in order to survive, Burkett fires the first shot in the battle to come.