“Can we see our relationships as acts of cooperation, not as a competition? Why should it take a pandemic to remind some parents of the pleasures of actually being parents? Can more parents be freed to be parents and stay home for a few years even when there isn’t a pandemic?”
Read More“Some of us are pushing back against the careerist survival-of-the-fittest time and soul famine.”
Read More“’We’ve created this idea that the meaning of life should be found in work,’ says Oren Cass”
Read More“It’s not just parents that are having trouble balancing careers and family; younger people have been finding it’s difficult in our work-first climate to even get relationships going.”
Read More“…the fake family-values right wing I was part of is actively and practically pro-abortion while also trying to prohibit access. That’s because the right wing has created a world in which actually having a child is discouraged at every turn. Again, this is misogyny, not pro-family, let alone pro-life.”
Read More“Covid aside, the United States is currently the only industrialized country with no guarantee of paid parental leave, for fathers or mothers, and no state-funded childcare.”
Read More“Somewhat prophetically, the pre-Covid pandemic studies on fatherhood seemed to predict the results of a 2020 midpandemic study, which showed that 45 percent of American fathers were spending more time on childcare than they did before the pandemic—and liking it.”
Read More“As the sociologist Jamie K. McCallum writes in ‘Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream’, Americans work too long and too hard, while others lack consistency in their hours and schedules.”
Read More“As my daughter Jessica, who is the CEO of a green-energy investment company in New York City, put it: ‘Businesses were established by men. They pretended they had no families. Families and women stayed home. When women joined the workforce, the deal was we pretended we didn’t have a family either and played by men’s rules. Then came Covid, and business meetings were on Zoom.
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