A review by xtine_leaps
Wanting What's Best: Parenting, Privilege, and Building a Just World by Sarah W. Jaffe, Sarah W. Jaffe

2.0

I understand the intention behind this book and appreciate some of the research it did, but it felt disconnected with some of its earlier points. Claiming that parents should align their values with which daycare they send a child to (read: paying more for a school that pays its workers a living wage) didn't match with some of the discussion on choosing schools to send a kid to (no comments on teachers' salaries or universities where classes are largely taught by underpaid adjuncts). Some of the critiques of parents not including enough families when forming pods during the global pandemic was a fairly privileged take from someone who may not have known how it felt to limit all socialization due to immunocompomised family members.