Insidious patriarchy?

'Imperfect Mum'  |  Features  |  imperfect parenting
Date posted:  1 Oct 2023
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Insidious patriarchy?

It’s not often a conversation with my children stops me in my tracks, but this one still troubles me for reasons I’m not sure I can fully articulate. But I’ll try.

I was at the dinner table with my two youngest, an unopened Amazon package sitting on the sideboard. The chat went like this:

Younger child: ‘Whose Amazon parcel is that, mum?’

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