Jan 2010: Fiona Pilkington tragedy: coroner attacks failings of ‘indifferent’ council
May 2011: Fiona Pilkington case: police face misconduct proceedings
Peter Hitchens comments: Read the awful story of Fiona... THEN accuse me of ‘moral panic’
He also mentions I Don't Know How She Does It:
The blitzkrieg against full-time mothers continues. Now we have a greatly hyped film, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, of the greatly hyped book I Don’t Know How She Does It, about some businesswoman or other who holds down an office job and has children, and they miraculously don’t starve or freeze to death or burn the house down in her absence.
I think we are supposed to admire this. But actually we do know how she does it. She hires a foreign nanny (or if enormously rich, a British one).
Politicians whose wives go out to work do this, too, but media organisations, likewise crammed with wage-slave mothers, never refer to the presence of an expensive servant. All that is supposed to have gone out with Downton Abbey. The wives involved are written about as if they do it all themselves.
No doubt this is all very well for the super-rich. Many children of such households develop enviably close relationships with the nanny, whom they see far more than their actual parent.
High-flying office work is fun, and it pays enough for tolerable childcare. But for hundreds of thousands driven to boring work to pay the bills, the work is not fun and the childcare, in crammed day-orphanages, is inadequate and sad.
I don’t know why we put up with it. Why is it still considered shaming and bad for a woman to bring up her own children?
Sarah Jessica Parker just isn't attractive. Uhmerican women are supposed to be envious?
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