Raising a Daughter, and Fearing How the Law Will Treat Her
For me and my wife, it's hard to know which anxieties to listen to and which to tune out.
Editor’s Note: This article is part of Parenting in an Uncertain Age, a series about the experience of raising children in a time of great change.
When I gave birth to my daughter Eleanor six weeks before the 2016 presidential election, my wife Liz and I were smitten. Five pounds, four ounces of perfection slept in my arms as we watched the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump from the hospital bed in Connecticut just a couple hours after delivery.
Besides the standard health-insurance and birth-certificate forms that come with a new baby, Liz and I had extra paperwork
