- Drains
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Bike
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a time when I could play and bike in the neighborhood, largely because my parents assumed that if I ever needed help, I could ask a nearby adult.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Virginia, like most states, has few guidelines about how closely parents are expected to supervise their children. As a result, I was charged not with leaving my son in the car, but with the misdemeanor of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
- Flaws
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is what shame does to women: It isolates us and makes us feel our stories aren't really stories at all but idiosyncratic flaws.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
We now live in a country where it is seen as abnormal, or even criminal, to allow children to be away from direct adult supervision, even for a second.
- Child Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a country that provides no subsidized child care and no mandatory family leave, no assurance of flexibility in the workplace for parents, no universal preschool and minimal safety nets for vulnerable families, making it a crime to offer children independence in effect makes it a crime to be poor.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're contemptuous of 'distracted' working mothers. We're contemptuous of 'selfish' rich mothers. We're contemptuous of mothers who have no choice but to work, but also of mothers who don't need to work and still fail to fulfill an impossible ideal of selfless motherhood. You don't have to look very hard to see the common denominator.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager, I'd longed to get my driver's license so I could get away from my parents. Then I'd longed to go to college to get away from the people I'd called my friends.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college, I'd gone abroad to get away from a campus where I felt I didn't fit in. And I started writing fiction, at least in part, because it was a way to feel like I was around people, to feel the energy and hum of others' inner lives, without the real-time frustrations and difficulties of actual relationships.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Serious relationships draw us away from the circle of friends that seemed so adequate, so fulfilling. Marriage cements these inward movements. Children draw partners closer, but they can also draw you further away from the friends and lives you once knew.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't think that leaving children alone is dangerous and therefore immoral. They think it is immoral and therefore dangerous.
- Nov 07, 2020
In spring 2011, I was arrested for allowing my son, then 4, to wait in a car with the windows open for a few minutes.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first learned I was pregnant with my son, I had only two firm convictions about parenting: I knew it was important, and I knew that I wanted to get it right. I was 29 at the time.
- Motherhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motherhood was the first instance in my life where I was asked to sacrifice anything for anyone.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love food, but I can't bear to read about it, to talk about it, to discuss the consequences and context of how we consume it. And this is more or less how I feel about raising children, too.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having children, entering the realm of parents and parenthood, changes our relationship to the world in ways we could not have anticipated and might not have signed up for. Before I had children, for example, I believed strongly in the nobility of suffering.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
All interesting, worthwhile humans suffered and struggled and overcame adversity of one sort or another. Pain is constructive. Misery can be useful. I believed this the way I believe the sun rises in the east. Then I had children, and I slowly began to disbelieve and disavow it.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my husband. I love my family.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020