nannies, housekeepers, gardeners, whatever, that Ivanka and Jared likewise rely on. They are NOT like most of us who juggle child care, grocery shopping, home maintenance, and a job with little flexibility.
The world of the working and middle class is so incredibly different from the world of those like Ivanka and Jared Kushner, and those women in Saudi Arabia, that we may as well be different species.
If you are the one who manages every aspect of your family's life: doctor and dentist appointments, chauffering to soccer games and the school play, ALL of the grocery shopping, figuring out who will stay home to let the furnace repair guy in, buying a new washer when the old one totally dies and making sure someone is there when it is delivered, scheduling the parent/teacher conferences so that at least one of you can be there, negotiating who gets to go home when one of the kids has to be sent home sick from school, and all sorts of similar issues.
I had the enormous good fortune to be a stay at home mom myself. So I was available for most of those things mentioned above. But I was always aware that most of the moms I knew didn't have that luxury, and had to go through all sorts of contortions to arrange such things. Plus, of course, if you worked until 5pm and there was a soccer game right after school at 3:30, you might not be able to make it to watch your kid play.
Our culture is singularly hostile to working parents. Or maybe I should say it's hostile to a person having children, or even any sort of life outside of work. Too many jobs demand that the worker be available 24/7, which is appalling, in my opinion, even if the said worker is single with no kids or other responsibilities. Where's the balance? Where's the sense that we work to live, not that we live to work?
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