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How was Amy Coney Barret able to raise SEVEN kids while building her career?
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Anonymous
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An extremely illustrious career at that.
This isn't political at all, I differ from her on politics but I'm just curious about how she was able to do this since her husband works too and had a very demanding career as well. Everyone else I know struggles to do these things with just 2 or 3 kids and they were able to do it with SEVEN. I need this woman to enlighten us. Drop some knowledge, Amy. |
Anonymous
| You should ask her Handmaid. |
Anonymous
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Most likely a loving nanny.
Do I detect a nanny gate coming? |
Anonymous
Sure. That's why you are you and she's the future Supreme Court Justice. |
Anonymous
| She spent most of her career as an academic. While a demanding career, the schedule is much less grueling than other fields. I am an academic and my spouse is in big law. I work hard, but there is no comparison to how hard spouse’s schedule is. We have three kids and I am the primary parent. I wouldn’t want seven, but if you hired the right kind of help, it would be possible with an academic career. |
Anonymous
Same. I am on the verge of having to quit my job due to the constant stress of distance learning. |
Anonymous
Nanny gate? She's an attorney and a judge. They have airtight clause(s). |
Anonymous
Wasn't she a federal judge before this recent appointment? And now she is going to be one of the most powerful people in the country. The other two women on the Court are childless. Politics aside (I also disagree with her stances) it's truly remarkable what Amy has accomplished and at such a young age. |
Anonymous
This. Particularly in legal academia, the demands tend to be prestigious-focused, not time focused. A law professor with a prestigious specialty who consults on high profile cases will be high value for the school but will never work as hard as a full-time attorney. |
Anonymous
| If I were an academic I’d have 7 kids too. DH and I are both in biglaw, and our careers aren’t compatible with a huge family. Looking back I should have tried to go to government right after law school. |
Anonymous
One woukd hope but, in matters of the heart (childcare decisions) we aren't always rational. |
Anonymous
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I have a lady dentist who gave birth to 8 kids. She did not go to dental school until she was in her thirties. She started as a teacher. She is high energy.
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Anonymous
| Schools were open then. It was a simpler time. |
Anonymous
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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. |
Anonymous
| I read her commute is an hour an a half! Even that with 8 kids seems unmanageable no matter what you do. |