BEFORE PROCEEDING ANY FURTHER, I should pause here to note that this conversation Clint and Angie are having about who does what—this conversation that all couples have about who does what—happens at the expense of a more important conversation: does the state have an obligation or moral imperative to help out mothers and fathers? In America we wind up having these arguments privately because our politics allows little room for us to have them publicly. One hates to invoke Sweden at this moment—it really is the most predictable cliché—but some of the happiest parents on the globe are, in fact,
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Sort of a theme here. We're expecting our partners to be everything, and that we can solve parenting/work/etc ourselves, but we in the USA should direct our on going anger to the state for doing nothing or worse than nothing to support families.
