Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles the love, not the disappointments the common sense, not the complexities.

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.