{"id":19776,"date":"2018-07-08T13:46:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=19776"},"modified":"2018-07-08T13:46:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T17:46:09","slug":"amy-coney-barrett-nomination-would-stop-working-parents-from-demanding-more-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/08\/amy-coney-barrett-nomination-would-stop-working-parents-from-demanding-more-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Coney Barrett nomination would stop working parents from demanding more help?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The media claims that Amy Coney Barrett<\/a>, an appeals court judge, is being considered by Donald Trump for the Supreme Court. Most people would agree that being an appeals court judge or a Supreme Court Justice is a demanding job. Americans generally say that it is impossible for them to rear one or two kids and work without a shower of financial and other assistance from childless workers and taxpayers (see “When and why did it become necessary to pay Americans to have children?”<\/a> for example). Yet Judge Barrett has 7 children<\/strong>, according to Wikipedia, two of whom are adopted. Is the answer a stay-at-home spouse who is responsible for all child-related tasks? Wikipedia says that her husband has\u00a0his own demanding full-time job (Assistant U.S. Attorney).<\/p>\n

In addition to driving our social, ethical, intellectual, and financial superiors in Silicon Valley nuts (what could be worse for these advocates of everything female than to see a woman nominated to serve on the Supreme Court?), would the nomination of Judge Barrett finally stop Americans with kids from demanding that the childless pitch in via higher taxes and longer workers hours?<\/p>\n

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