Calling the Shots Quotes

“This ideology of individualist parenting is tightly bound to economic and social trends that privatize individuals and their bodies into informed consumers. Parents tout their commitment to informed individual choice as a way of expressing their commitment to their children, which overrides a commitment to community responsibility and social justice.”
― Jennifer A. Reich, Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines

“natural mothers” who reject consumerism, homeschooling mothers who dictate the pace of their families’ lives, or women who breastfeed their children—sometimes for many years—as a commitment to their children’s well-being.”
― Jennifer A. Reich, Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines

“Freedom from compulsion (in this case from vaccine requirements) rather than access to resources to create widespread access to care becomes the political goal.48 As individual preference becomes synonymous with freedom, the unequal ability to exercise choice, particularly around state policy, is obscured.”
― Jennifer A. Reich, Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines

“the emergence of an ideology of individualist parenting, which prioritizes individual choice for one’s own children over community obligation, ignores how some families with fewer resources have fewer options, but face increased risk of illness.”
― Jennifer A. Reich, Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines

“Parents who reject vaccines for their children benefit from herd immunity, but refuse to contribute to it, making them free-riders to other children’s immunity.”
― Jennifer A. Reich, Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines