Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness audiobook runs 5.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Emily Beresford (about 3.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 5.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 11 days |
| 1 hour / day | 6 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
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What our data says
- At 5.3 hours, it is shorter than 78% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Emily Beresford
Emily Beresford narrates 236 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,905 hours in all.
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness is an audiobook by Jessica Valenti: a 5.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Emily Beresford, released September 4, 2012, on the Social Science and Parenting shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 5.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Emily Beresford
- Released
- September 4, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, Parenting
- ISBN
- 9781469211985
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness audiobook?
Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness runs 5.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.5 hours.
Is the Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness audiobook free?
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Who narrates Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness?
Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness is narrated by Emily Beresford.