Spreadin’ Love

Belle navigates the maid/boss relationship.

Harry at Crooked Timber has a highly favorable review of a book, Why Love Matters, by Sue Gerhardt. Gerhardt is a harsh critic of bad daycare believing that the lack of one-on-one attention to a baby’s needs will have long term emotional scars. She also writes that it is possible to be a feminist and aim to level up work of caring for and rearing children rather than leveling it down.

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A new study estimates that a stay at home mother deserves a salary of $134,121. And my high school chum, Jeanne Sahadi, writes about it for CNN.