Parents Need To Talk To Their Sons About Care

Last year over an impromptu mother-daughter lunch, one of us (Kate Washington) listened with delight as daughter Nora, then 17 and a high-school senior, enthused about her future and the hands-on, creative career she wanted. Then Nora paused between bites of gyro and asked: “The problem is, how do I balance that with being a mom?

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