How was Amy Coney Barret able to raise SEVEN kids while building her career?

[Anonymous]

I love how you guys are pooh poohing the accomplishments of academics now just because they have better hours than BigLaw.

Do you know how freaking hard it is to get a tenure track job at any university these days, let alone one of the most prestigious in the country??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools were open then. It was a simpler time.

People like you are why I stick with DCUM. Not mean, just funny.

[Anonymous]

My graduate advisor was a devout Catholic who raised seven kids. Three of them were adopted with special needs. She was also near the top of her STEM specialty.

Having said that, she looked like she picked her clothes from her teenager’s laundry bin every day and would lecture in galoshes when it wasn’t raining.

For someone to have that many kids and have a put together life is pretty impressive.

[Anonymous]

How was Antonin Scalia able to raise nine?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How was Antonin Scalia able to raise nine?

Ha, ha! Best post of the week!!!

[Anonymous]

Why do people keep going on about the Handmaid’s Tale? We know the connection with Atwood being inspired by Barrett’s religious group but ACB has never expressed ideas like women shouldn’t have birth control or work outside the home right? She’s not a Serena Joy or Aunt Lydia type.

She’s against abortion but so are a lot of other women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should ask her Handmaid.

Sure. That's why you are you and she's the future Supreme Court Justice.

ZING. So true. Haters gonna hate but she’s still going to be more accomplished than her haters with 2-3 times the number of kids.

[Anonymous]

She seems super smart and I respect that but also her rise to the appellate court and the Supreme Court are clearly in part because she fits the needs of the Federalist society and the Republican party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do people keep going on about the Handmaid’s Tale? We know the connection with Atwood being inspired by Barrett’s religious group but ACB has never expressed ideas like women shouldn’t have birth control or work outside the home right? She’s not a Serena Joy or Aunt Lydia type.

She’s against abortion but so are a lot of other women.

Actually it wasn’t even inspired by her religious group. Handmaid’s tale was inspired by People of Hope (a different organization), not People of Praise which Barrett has been affiliated with. Newsweek recently published a correction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She has said in interviews she had a lot of extended family around in South Bend, including her husband's aunt who did most of the childcare while they were working. She and her husband took turns being the "default parent" and and he picked up more slack at certain points with kid logistics like activities and doctors appointments (like when she became a judge he picked up slack, when they were babies she did the heavy lifting). Notre Dame is pretty good with leave/teaching release policies for tenure track faculty and she was able to bring kids into the office with a basket of toys to play while meeting with students (this is not atypical of universities...being a faculty member is a stressful but flexible gig day to day). She also said living in South Bend helped because it's such a small city and if she needed to leave campus to get to her kids' elementary school or activities, she could be there in 10 minutes, whereas in a larger city it would be much more challenging.

I went down a youtube rabbit hole wondering this same thing last night. That's just what she said to a panelist of Notre Dame law students.

Also, when I went to NDL, it was not unusual for professors to have a kid or two hanging around the school every now and then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How was Antonin Scalia able to raise nine?

Ha, ha! Best post of the week!!!

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do people keep going on about the Handmaid’s Tale? We know the connection with Atwood being inspired by Barrett’s religious group but ACB has never expressed ideas like women shouldn’t have birth control or work outside the home right? She’s not a Serena Joy or Aunt Lydia type.

She’s against abortion but so are a lot of other women.

Actually it wasn’t even inspired by her religious group. Handmaid’s tale was inspired by People of Hope (a different organization), not People of Praise which Barrett has been affiliated with. Newsweek recently published a correction.

Doesn’t matter. People of Praise is still a creepy cult.

[Anonymous]

She is not done raising children.

It is this aspect of her life that I am most hopeful for in a Supreme Court Justice. She will be the only mother in the court. She will have the youngest children. She is mother of a special needs child. She is also an adoptive mother. She will bring a different perspective just based on this.

I am not in agreement with so many of her views, but I am hopeful that the above will help in decisions where we may actually agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do people keep going on about the Handmaid’s Tale? We know the connection with Atwood being inspired by Barrett’s religious group but ACB has never expressed ideas like women shouldn’t have birth control or work outside the home right? She’s not a Serena Joy or Aunt Lydia type.

She’s against abortion but so are a lot of other women.

Actually it wasn’t even inspired by her religious group. Handmaid’s tale was inspired by People of Hope (a different organization), not People of Praise which Barrett has been affiliated with. Newsweek recently published a correction.

Doesn’t matter. People of Praise is still a creepy cult.

I think it matters some. Not to say some of the practices of People of Praise aren’t problematic (no women leadership, etc.) but people of Hope is like really really out of the mainstream and fundamentalist. They had arranged marriages and were really a cult cult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She has said in interviews she had a lot of extended family around in South Bend, including her husband's aunt who did most of the childcare while they were working. She and her husband took turns being the "default parent" and and he picked up more slack at certain points with kid logistics like activities and doctors appointments (like when she became a judge he picked up slack, when they were babies she did the heavy lifting). Notre Dame is pretty good with leave/teaching release policies for tenure track faculty and she was able to bring kids into the office with a basket of toys to play while meeting with students (this is not atypical of universities...being a faculty member is a stressful but flexible gig day to day). She also said living in South Bend helped because it's such a small city and if she needed to leave campus to get to her kids' elementary school or activities, she could be there in 10 minutes, whereas in a larger city it would be much more challenging.

I went down a youtube rabbit hole wondering this same thing last night. That's just what she said to a panelist of Notre Dame law students.

So, basically she didn't raise her kids, which is the obvious answer.