It's rare to see a child in the workplace, but it really shouldn't be | Kaitlin Solimine

It's rare to see a child in the workplace, but it really shouldn't be | Kaitlin Solimine

As Americans move further away from a traditional nuclear family, parents shouldn’t have to keep their work identity separate The morning b... 00:01:00

As Americans move further away from a traditional nuclear family, parents shouldn’t have to keep their work identity separate

The morning before I was presenting a paper at a Beat Generation Studies conference in Paris, the babysitter I’d arranged to watch my daughter texted to say she couldn’t make it. Worried I’d have to cancel the presentation, I asked the organizers, two men, if they knew of any last-minute babysitters.

“Bring her!” they said. “We’re fathers of six kids between us. We’ll watch her.”

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