One review I found about the Opt-Out Revolution is the idea that women are being pushed out. In many ways I can agree with this. High quality affordable childcare is impossible. Men are not pulling their parental weight at home. And women feel child rearing as a personal responsibility not to be shared with outsiders. Many companies require their employees to work a set number of hours with no regard to the idea that much of the work can be done at home. Maternity leave or even post-delivery leave for both genders is given in minimal increments where men are given non at all. To say that motherhood is a women's issue is not fair because it removes the fathers parental responsibility as well. Parenting is a social issue that all genders and legislation must be involved in. My major critique of this article and about the Opt-Out ideology is that men are too easily being let off the hook to follow through with their parental responsibilities.
Response to the readings
The F Word
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