Wanting What's Best: Parenting, Privilege, and Building a Just World

When privileged parents say that they “want what's best” for their child, they don't consciously add “and not for other children.”

Yet the practical effect of parents with privilege relentlessly pursuing their own child's interests is that other children are left behind. Author Sarah W. Jaffe interviewed dozens of parents who are resisting the cultural pressures to seek "the best" for only their kids while navigating some of the major decisions that parents make—about childcare, schools, h...