You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate…If you don’t have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely to find themselves standing in the kitchen with all these domestic skills and no outlet for them, no way to earn a living…. [A]t that point your kids are not thanking you for having made the hand-pureed baby food and for giving them homemade cookies. They don’t feel you’ve done them a big favor; they say, \”Why didn’t she ever grow up and take responsibility for her own life?\”
Emily Matchar