The first time through, I flinched so hard at "let alone in their bathing suits" (hello, Mean Girls) that I couldn't keep reading. What a bigoted asshole.

When I read it again here, I noticed a tone of "I am uniquely ill-positioned to take care of my children. I have childcare issues far beyond the norm, and am completely reliant on the free (!) childcare that my brother offers, and thus am justified in making him change his life to make me comfortable."

Honey, every parent who's not rich has childcare issues. Parenthood is always difficult to combine with working for a living. Other single parents manage this all the time.