The Terror of Limited Choices
“What’s changed? Lots. Teens living in the ever-darkening shadow of their phones; degrading misogynist, often racist and violent porn and rape-culture invading childhoods; disconnected online ‘life’; the continuing impact of divorce as a ‘normal’ event for millions of children; the well-known pathologies of our disgracefully failing educational system. That said, the limited choices offered parents resulting in a work-life imbalance is (in my view) a major key to understanding many of our children’s (and grownups’) distress. And since that has meant that kids face being raised by non-family strangers, since we don’t accommodate, encourage, let alone pay for time off from work for both parents to care for preschool-age children, we’ve built a traumatizing trap for all concerned. Worse: not only aren’t parents helped who want to stay home with young kids, many parents who opt for day care can’t even afford to pay for it. So the stress levels just escalate.”
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Fall in Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy
is Available for Pre-Order Now.
To be published November 2 by HCI Books • Distributed by Simon & Schuster
