My gut-level feelings about the future changed, but it’s not at all surprising to me that other parents like Abby had a different experience. I didn’t mean to make a claim about what other people’s experience was.
I agree with Abby that it’s a mistake to read Caplan as meaning that parenting won’t be hard. It will definitely be hard, especially in the early years. It just doesn’t have to be quite as hard as current upper-middle-class US norms would have you think.
My gut-level feelings about the future changed, but it’s not at all surprising to me that other parents like Abby had a different experience. I didn’t mean to make a claim about what other people’s experience was.
I agree with Abby that it’s a mistake to read Caplan as meaning that parenting won’t be hard. It will definitely be hard, especially in the early years. It just doesn’t have to be quite as hard as current upper-middle-class US norms would have you think.