Much has been written about how parents affect their children.

But how do children affect their parents?

Jennifer Senior, a writer for New York (magazine) since 1997 who brings both warmth and rigor to investigating our emotional lives, ponders this dynamic in her book All Joy and No Fun. Senior specializes in long, elaborate stories about social science, using a trademark combination of academic research, empathy and wit to investigate some of most challenging aspects of our social and interior lives. ^[1]