• Parenting in late-stage capitalism

    Parenting in late-stage capitalism

    My kid fell out of a tree while he was at a camp this summer. He wasn’t injured but the camp called us about it. Am I a bad parent for sending him to a camp where he could fall out of a tree? We left him with a nanny when he was six months old because to pay the bills required two working parents. Does that make us bad parents? How should the state determine if we should keep our child? These are the questions Jessamine Chan asks in The School for Good Mothers, an astonishing debut novel that…