… grateful every day for living in a time and place where motherhood is an option and not a mandate. I am endlessly cognizant of the ways in which my professional and personal life are both easier because I don’t have the responsibility of dependents. But I also want to live in a society in which people who do have kids (still by far a majority) don’t have to see their professional and personal lives utterly derailed because they take on that responsibility. Put simply (and like a good liberal), the more support there is for parents, the stronger our communities, and the better life is for everyone.