Stop fetishising parenting - you're sucking all the joy out of it!

The Guardian - Throw out the mummy and daddy manuals and ditch the philosophies ? your kids will be fine and you will be happier 'I think my child has been breastfed by another woman," my friend Jennifer announces out of the blue in the middle of our kids' play-date. Even for California, where we live, this is mind-bogglingly weird. For a start, Jennifer's daughter Alice is two and a half. By British standards, it's a little odd that even her own mother is still breastfeeding her, although living here I'm getting used to that kind of thing. But breastfeeding someone else's child? A starving newborn trapped in a snowstorm maybe. But a pre-schooler whose mum has popped to the bank? I look over at Alice, so deceptively cute with her pigtails and pink sandals. Adulterer, I think to myself.