Apple Pie and Motherhood 0
Meghan Daum commits sacrilege, suggesting that, perhaps, being a parent isn’t the toughest job in the world, despite the sanctimous bleating surrounding the Hilary Rosen kerfuffle:
She has a point.
I’ve spent too much time at PTA meetings, playgrounds, swimming pools, and scout meetings to buy the line that having children inherently exalts persons into some kind of superbeings called “Moms” and “Dads,” worthy of reverence because they have succeeded in doing something that almost everyone has succeeded in doing since Adam and Eve.
You can argue that parenthood is inherently transformative, at least for most (he said oxymoronically).
It is not, however, inherently ennobling. Just look around you, for Pete’s sake.
The persons who benefit most from the reverentially sanctimonious treatment of parenthood as somehow inherently ennobling are politicians who want to change the subject and companies that sell greeting cards.
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