The steady presence of a parent in her home when she was a child doesn't seem to have affected her as an adult. She doesn't mention that she cares about that parent at all. I wonder if she is still attached to him?
I wonder if she thinks her father was babysitting, all those years? That would reflect a deep underlying sexism, but lots of people do feel that way. (About good fathers as well as bad ones.) She complains that her mother says she has a "choice" about staying home with her children...as if children have 2 parents and the family chooses which parent stays home with them. It's not just her own father who is uncomfortably absent from this letter, but the father of her children.
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I wonder if she thinks her father was babysitting, all those years? That would reflect a deep underlying sexism, but lots of people do feel that way. (About good fathers as well as bad ones.) She complains that her mother says she has a "choice" about staying home with her children...as if children have 2 parents and the family chooses which parent stays home with them. It's not just her own father who is uncomfortably absent from this letter, but the father of her children.