Fallon acts as the high priest of a terrified optimism, his rictus grin serving as a shield against the encroaching silence of the real. Here, in the sanitized, over-lit heart of the American culture industry, there is an inescapable horror. But it isn't a monster lurking in the shadows; it is the manic, unblinking insistence that actually, there are no shadows at all.
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In 1975, for example, women spent an average of 14 minutes a week helping their kids with their homework. By 2018, the most recent year for which the modern data is harmonized with historical, that amount had nearly quintupled (to an hour and nine minutes). The pattern holds across every child-centric category of adult time-use, including infant care (up from an hour and 40 minutes to nearly four hours) and playing with kids (from 36 minutes to nearly three hours).
Parenting activates all these anxieties and all this urgency around our identities and how we move through the world.
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