De-cluttering their apartment and making photo albums are about as crafty as Rubin gets in "Happier at Home" (Crown Archetype, $26). Kate White rose from doing the dishes after breakfast meetings at Glamour to running Cosmopolitan for 14 years, penning such immortal headlines as "Mattress Moves So Hot His Thighs Will Burst Into Flames." Given studies that show parents are less happy than child-free adults, Jessica Valenti's provocative new book asks "Why Have Kids?" (New Harvest, $23). While in some cases she protests too much about the pressure modern women are under, Valenti raises a number of startling arguments. Because women are so busy blaming one another for parenting decisions, she writes, we've let society off the hook.
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