Time Cover

[DrPhil]

Sure, the battles of relatively privileged people who have enough time and resources to engage in Nipplegate is of little concern in the grander scheme of things.

Yes, there are parentless children and at-risk children.

However, I must call bullshit because it seems as though some people are missing the middle ground. Parentless children and at-risk (does the author care to share what "at-risk" means in this context?) children do not become as such by mysterious and unknown forces. They become as such because it matters what parents and adults-who-don't-deserve-to-be-called-parents (across demographic characteristics) do both inside and outside of the home. We all have topics that we care about regardless of its larger impact. People who claim not to care what parents do with their children are only saying that because it has yet to reach a level that they deem worthy of attention. And who is to say what that level is?

And, no, I do not assume that the mothers who are engaged in Nipplegate are all "competent mothers" as the author seems to think.