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Lara Bazelon on Why Having a Career is Good for Your Kids

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The Paradime Shift in Parenthood

I wanted to ask you a little bit about that, because you also wrote a piece last year about divorce and how and in another paradime shift, it was an act of radical self love. You wrote at one point that work gave shape and purpose to your life m but because time is finite, devisits added up on the other side of ledger. My ambition was also a source of tension with my husband, matt. And i didn't get divorced because somebody cheated, or we were sick of each other. I just felt that i was not going to be able to be my complete self and stay in the relationship in the that it existed.

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