Modern Dharma explores family transformations among the Nepali city of Bhaktapur’s emerging middle class. Personal narratives of conflict and adjustment in domestic spaces and among kin shed new light on changing social roles and relationships, which are negotiated in the pursuit of “well-being” in a context of accelerated socioeconomic change.

In this 10th anniversary edition of Baby Bust, Friedman draws on a groundbreaking cross-generational study to offer new insights into why fewer people are choosing to have children, how the pandemic affected these trends, and what can be done about it.