American motherhood can be so isolating. For most of history, children were reared in much more communal environments within tribes, clans, and extended family groups - that "village" Hillary Clinton was ridiculed for invoking. The stand-alone nuclear family is just so precarious, particularly in a country with very little in the way of safety net.
How about a society that has as elaborate, expensive, and effective a system for taking care of troubled people as it has for punishing them when their trouble overwhelms them?
I guess the most important thing is for a society to express its disapproval of infanticide. I mean, if this woman gets away with it, who knows how many others will think it’s OK to kill their children.
This all looks to me like an extension of the complete disregard for women’s lives and health that led to the overturning of Roe. In the US, women can’t win.
American motherhood can be so isolating. For most of history, children were reared in much more communal environments within tribes, clans, and extended family groups - that "village" Hillary Clinton was ridiculed for invoking. The stand-alone nuclear family is just so precarious, particularly in a country with very little in the way of safety net.
Great piece, Jill.
How about a society that has as elaborate, expensive, and effective a system for taking care of troubled people as it has for punishing them when their trouble overwhelms them?
I guess the most important thing is for a society to express its disapproval of infanticide. I mean, if this woman gets away with it, who knows how many others will think it’s OK to kill their children.
This all looks to me like an extension of the complete disregard for women’s lives and health that led to the overturning of Roe. In the US, women can’t win.