These are parents who, steeped in Lareau’s concerted cultivation, spend most of their free time thinking about how to make their children’s lives better. Yet, by default, in many of their decisions they are subconsciously judging those who make different ones, oblivious to the fact that each decision ultimately rests on the economic and social freedom a mother does or does not possess, and that this freedom is derived almost entirely from her position in a capitalist society.
