{"product_id":"wanting-children-leonard-m-lopoo-9780226850146","title":"Wanting Children: Family-Planning Policies and the Engineering of America's Population","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn the eugenic origins of US reproductive laws--and the surprising policy changes needed to remedy it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe US government spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to promote and facilitate contraception. Whereas other wealthy countries support broader fertility interventions under the banner of \"family planning,\" the United States remains committed only to helping Americans--and especially poorer Americans--plan \u003ci\u003enot \u003c\/i\u003eto have a family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an unflinching treatise on one of the century's defining social issues, Leonard M. Lopoo shows how the US's asymmetric reproductive approach is a vestige of the country's earlier sins: America's first reproductive policies were authored by some of the twentieth century's most prominent eugenicists, a group whose primary goal was birth prevention among lower economic classes and racial minorities. These origins have consequently created a contradictory position for the country today, in which contraception for the lowest-income Americans is subsidized, while many upper-class Americans employ technologies to have children with preferable traits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLopoo recasts this personal and politicized topic in elegant, stark terms. If the United States is to legislate reproduction, the only defensible approach is equity: helping people who want children to have children. \u003ci\u003eWanting Children \u003c\/i\u003eposits a new and elevating criterion for how we think about fertility in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leonard M. Lopoo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226850145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226850146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d","brand":"Leonard M. Lopoo","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48852628963583,"sku":"9780226850146","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wanting-children-leonard-m-lopoo-9780226850146","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}