AMERICAN WOMEN HAVE 1.66 CHILdren on average. Yet academic Catherine Ruth Pakaluk isn’t interested in averages, but in outliers — the five per cent of American women with five or more children. A mother of eight herself, Pakaluk seeks the “kernel of difference” that makes the five per cent exceptional. Hannah’s Children is born of her interviews with 55 such women, all American-born, university-educated and religious.
Do not dismiss these women as trad wives seeking to serve
