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“What if there’s something seriously wrong with him?” “Then we’ll give him away,” he said, his face gentle and somber. She smiled in spite of herself and pushed him. “No,” he said. “Then we’ll have a different kind of life than we planned. But we’ll love him with everything we’ve got and rely on each other, and we’ll make it work.”
“I’d argue that thoroughly weighing an action makes choosing to take it even more rewarding.”
Because even though fathers stamped children with their last names, the world didn’t ask as much of them. No one really expected fathers to consider giving up their careers to put their children first, to stop managing a company and start managing a household. Women had to grapple with a choice that men never did while remaining uncomplaining and generous so that they didn’t nag their husbands straight into the arms of less complicated lovers. And now moms weren’t even allowed to acknowledge how much work it all was anymore. Modern women of privilege had to claim that their manic exercise
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She’d been a bad mother. And that, it seemed, was the worst thing a woman could possibly be. A prostitute who moonlighted as a contract killer could be redeemed if she was doing it all so that she could tuck her child into a warm bed every night. But a woman could be charming, immensely intelligent, ambitious, strong, and head-turningly gorgeous, and if she screwed up her parenting, the world deemed her a piece of shit.
