Third Culture Kid(s)

This is why all those baby/toddler classes cost so damned much.  It’s probably why Linda Hirschman can get away with whinging about all the mothers who should be doing something ‘better’ with their lives - it’s a whole lot easier to do something besides parent when you’ve got the money to hire people to help out.*

It’s interesting to know that, for the purposes of whatever drove this essay, M. and I are definitely an “Asian” couple; we don’t make anything even approaching $200,000.  But we’re not far away from $66,000.

*I’m puzzled by her use of “elite.”  Since she found “elite” women in the wedding announcements of the NYT, can we assume that they’re rich, but not necessarily driven?  Does “rich” = “elite” when it comes to well-paid employment?  Could none of them have been born to it, so to speak?  Where does someone like me - working on my PhD, from a white, upper-middle class background - fit in here?  She seems to circulate in an exceedingly small and homogenous world.

**Both links borrowed from Barely Tenured.