ressure, both working mothers and their stay-at-home counterparts are vulnerable to different kinds of guilt: the guilt of not contributing more to the family finances or the guilt of spending too much time away from children. That guilt, added to parents' natural pride in their children and desire to give them the best, materially, intellectually and emotionally, has resulted in an intense concentration on the infant as both evidence of and justification for the parents' lifestyle.Another contributing factor may be the movement away from regular contact with distant grandparents and other older and wiser relatives. There is often no one parents can turn to for childrearing advice, and no one to say to them, "I think babies don't care how expensive their clothes are. . . The baby seems tired of this game," or, more ...
