Even middle-class children are suffering from neglect


Rachel Johnson says that working mothers, divorce, Polish nannies and an obsession with extra-curricular activities mean that our children are seeingless of their parents than at any time in the last 100 years

And when did you last see your children? Before you both left at the crack for the office? When they were already in bed? Or do you only see them — let’s be brutally realistic here, given our divorce rate — at alternate weekends?
So we don’t need to ask any more who tucks them up at night, takes them to school, listens to their Homeric summaries of Harry Potter books, buys them Start-rites, takes them to the dentist, finds out they’re upset, do we?

E quem discorda deste estado de coisas é porque é conservador, atávico, não percebe o progresso, etc, etc. Por cá, algumas «famílias» em vez de reivindicarem melhores condições laborais exigem mais AEC para a sua prole, para manter a criançada o mais tempo fora de casa que é possível. Em contrapartida, quem quer regressar a casa mais cedo pelas razões contrárias cada vez tem maiores dificuldades.