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Title: Where are the children?
Review: I bought this book in early 2009, but didn't find time to read it until recently. It's an entertaining epic of a nation in crisis, almost as good as "War and Peace". Before 2006, I would have found the politicians' characters idiotic beyond belief, but they talk and act exactly like the people running America today, and it feels great to see them humiliated and destroyed.Although primary and secondary characters do have sex, none of them ever have children. Unlike "The Children of Men", no one in the novel seems to notice this or think it a problem. All socialist societies ultimately contracept themselves into extinction, but the Strikers must aspire to something better. Where do family and childbearing fit into the Objectivist philosophy?I suspect Rand herself never figured this out, as she never had children.
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