The overloading of “parenting” has led to decades of backlash. Lynne Sharon Schwartz wrote, “Parenting refers to the tasks women and men undertake upon producing children, once so self-evident as to require no gerund.” And John Rosemond wrote: “In the years since World War II, we have become increasingly, and neurotically, obsessed with the raising of children. . . . Along the way, child-rearing has become ‘parenting’ with all of its high-pressure implications.”
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