I can see the pre-nups now. "...Father will provide a home and quality of life to the requirements of parenting agreement. The woman will receive just compensation for years without income during her parenting years until the graduation from doctorial school of the children, while undergoing rehabilitation of her career. This guaranteed regardless of market forces..."
Two weeks ago Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney found himself facing accusations of elitism – not to mention no small amount of ridicule – when he suggested one of the first steps to take on one’s way to finding the American dream of monetary success was to borrow money from the First National Bank of Mom and/or Dad. “We’ve always encouraged young people: Take a shot, go for it. Take a risk. Get the education. Borrow money if you have to from your parents. Start a business,” Romney said to students at Otterbein University in Ohio.
Ha. Ha. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, the average Baby Boomer with less than ten years to go till retirement has a grand total of $78,000 saved up for their golden years. A third have $25,000 or less. This crowd can’t even afford to send their children to college without resorting to student loan industrial complex, never mind funding a start-up. Telling the kids to borrow from mom and dad is parenting advice for the one percent and Romney rightly got called on it.
But when Dr. William Sears, the guru of attachment parenting, says the same thing as Romney, we are, apparently, too distracted by a mammary gland and our never-ending debate over what makes a good mom to notice. According to Pickert, Sears proposes, “mothers quit their jobs and borrow money” to afford to carry out his recommendations. On the plus side, Sears is not a hypocrite. He and his wife “subsidized” his sons’ families so the moms could practice attachment parenting. “It was the least we could do,” Martha Sears told Time....
