On Elevating Career-Achievement to a Quasi-Religious Cult

“If we hadn’t demeaned parenthood in favor of elevating career-achievement to a quasi-religious cult, and if we hadn’t in effect become nomadic, rootless, individualistic, disruption-venerating, thrill-seeking strivers, we might have our priorities straight when it comes to what a good life, a happy life, and fulfilling life actually can be. We’d be living in a country where it would be unthinkable that any preschool age child would have less than topflight, parental stay-at-home care paid for by the government. Parents, family, friends, teachers, and grandparents would be teams of childcare givers so parents would not do this alone. Childminding (by men, women, and nonbinary people alike) would be seen as the highest, most-valued vocation of all. Parenting experience would be valued by corporations looking to hire and promote. Instead, we’ve trapped millions of the working poor parents in a cycle of low-wage, family-crippling struggle while the women in this cohort are caring for the children of the affluent.”

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Published November 2 by HCI Books • Distributed by Simon & Schuster