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So Kylie Jenner goes to Coachella without her baby? If I could, I’d do the same | Nell Frizzell

That more women don’t very occasionally spend time away from their baby is down to economics, not bad mothering
‘Kylie Jenner can probably afford to provide a safe, nurturing childcare environment for a weekend.’ Photograph: Carl Timpone/BFA/REX/Shutterstock

Remember when we all lambasted Jay-Z for partying at his club 40/40 in New York just 12 days after his daughter Blue Ivy was born? Remember when we criticised David Beckham for going surfing a month after his daughter Harper Seven was born? No, me neither.

You don’t have to have a womb to notice that the media moral crime of “leaving your children at home” is committed, almost exclusively, by mothers. Fathers, particularly famous fathers – the sorts of fathers who travel the world, go to nightclubs, watch sport, drink in bars, surf, play golf, go

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