“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.”
Read More“We used to talk about childcare as if its purpose was to ‘free’ women to get jobs. We updated that to ‘freeing parents’—men and women—to get jobs.”
Read More“To get respect, women with children or caregiving males or nonbinary caregivers must identify themselves as having some other job besides ‘just childcare’ or being ‘just a houseparent’ because childcare is regarded as unskilled labor.”
Read More“Letterman, Clooney, and Stern: profiles in changing masculinity. Kids are many things but not trivial. My grandchildren ask frankly about things grownups don’t. ‘Ba, when did you get old?’ Jack asked out of the blue one afternoon when he was nine.”
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