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The worst parents in the world

Screw Gymboree and breast-feeding! New confessional memoirs by Ayelet Waldman and Michael Lewis join an ever-growing genre lashing out at our expectations for today's mommies and daddies.
By Rebecca Traister

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  • Tuesday, May 5, 2009 09:30 PM

    fantastic piece

    Rebecca takes two pages to distill what Lewis and Waldman didn't in six hundred: this debate will seem bizarrely antiquated and irrelevant to any child currently being raised by any of us. The "oops I'm a dad" school of thought will go the way of the "fetch me my belt so's I can whup you" ethic, and to think it only took a few hundred thousand years. Wonderful writing.

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