I don’t know how parents don’t spend all day, every day, worrying that they’re creating monsters. And I know that the ones worrying the most are the women in my life who are raising boys. And the dads are so important, but in my life it’s the mothers I’m most attuned to. And the dads are so important, but in my life it’s the mothers I’m most attuned to. It’s the mothers that the little boys are obsessed with, that the little boys want to marry, that the little boys deafen with their play.

Source: The Irish Times February 19, 2026 07:49 UTC