While our culture tacitly assumes that middle-class moms get to choose between working outside the home or devoting themselves to their kids full-time, dads have fewer perceived choices. At the end of the day, we’re all in the same boat. With so much pressure to earn money, spend money, and raise reasonably happy kids, sometimes it’s tough to pick up the socks.
Illustration by Ellen Lupton, from “The Myth of the Working Mother,” Design Your Life, by Ellen and Julia Lupton (St Martins Press, 2009). Magazine concept inspired by Abbott Miller (Happy Father’s Day, dude!)
— Ellen Lupton · 2009-06-21
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