I have lived a particularly privileged life. I was able to choose not to be a mother, and I was able to choose to be a mother, on my own terms. I was able to choose to move to a place with good public schools, just because we can afford to pay these kinds of taxes. I was enabled by a system where the deck was stacked in my favor, and now I am able to stack it in my daughter’s favor. I am well aware that I am lucky beyond reckoning.
