Kamala Harris Puts Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Her Unhumble Place by Frank Bruni [View all]

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'There’s a kind of holiday-season letter — I’m sure you’ve received one — that isn’t so much an update from the family who sent it as an advertisement for the brood’s glory. . .

My fruitlessness — I’m a childless dog laddie — is its own contribution. I pay (gladly) for public schools that I don’t use. I participate (again, gladly) in health insurance plans that are more generous to colleagues with children than they are to me. Even at my most profligate, the one of me doesn’t leave a carbon footprint as broad and deep as a gaggle of mini-mes would.

Those aren’t complaints, just observations offered in the context of Sanders’s apparent belief that those of us without progeny swagger through our days with egos unchecked by diapers, “Goodnight Moon,” tonsillitis and soccer practice.

I’m, in fact, in awe of parents. . .

And they are seasoned — and in many cases humbled — by all of that. . .

But there are humbling experiences aplenty outside the realm of parenting, . .

Their reasons for having children may include the emotional rewards of those relationships, the hope that their children will someday watch after them, the glimmer of immortality achieved by passing on their genes, the fascination of watching their own flesh and blood navigate the world.

All of those motivations are recognizably and touchingly human.

Not one of them is humble.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/opinion/sarah-huckabee-sanders-harris.html