Am I Allowed to Hate Fatherhood?

In recent years, women writers have made a highbrow cottage industry of the family-stress confessional. Honor Jones demolished her family after realizing during a kitchen renovation that she wanted a divorce. Emily Gould had a mental breakdown and crowdfunded a divorce attempt before reconciling with her husband. Anne-Marie Slaughter kicked off the trend in 2013, in an essay for The Atlantic, on “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.”