What is Perfect Parent World?

Although many adults don’t realise it, peer pressure is just as pervasive for parents as it is for kids. Perfect Parent World is a set of behaviours, a construct, about things you have to be and how you conduct yourself. That symbolises that you are a good parent, that you belong to the group and that your opinion matters.

Sometimes being part of Perfect Parent World is having a powerful job. But what you see in communities outside of Washington or Boston or Chicago is that there’s this whole thing about women who don;t have to work. Then the hierarchy is that the woman who works is lower than the woman who doesn’t.

Some things are the same in Perfect Parent World. You have to be thin, no matter how many pregnancies you have. And you have to have the right kind of car.