First, there have been many tweets about Sophie Turner as a young mom and human who is getting divorced. Here’s an article (Stylist UK).
Also so many tweets about the 29-year-old who made eggs on the weekend. Here’s an article about it by Mary Harrington.
Thirdly, Understanding the Baby Boom (Works in Progress)
Parenthood rapidly became much easier and safer between the 1930s and 1950s. The spread of labour-saving devices in the home such as washing machines and fridges made raising children easier; improvements in medicine making childbirth safer; and easier access to housing made it cheaper to house larger families.
Anvar Sarygulov & Phoebe Arslanagic-Wakefield
I hate to be the next person publicly talking about Joe Jonas and Sophia Turner. I wish them both the best, and this kind of attention is probably hard on their kids. Anyway… what interests me about this case is that parenting seems to have been hard on them, even though Joe Jonas is worth $50 million. They could have a washing machine on every floor of their huge house. So, do the Works in Progress authors really understand the Baby Boom?
Parenting is so hard and so many of us are doing it in almost isolation even if we have neighbors who wave at us and grandparents that visit and daycare and work colleagues and… a washing machine. People who cheer you on social media are not a village.
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Good point. I think, somehow, there was more social support for mothers during the baby boom.
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Richmond Fed interview with Melissa Kearney (HT: Tyler) https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/econ_focus/2023/q3_interview
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