Reply #15: The article is irritating because it assumes moms are the primary caregivers,

[Berry Cool]

which is all too common with mainstream articles on "parenting" (they're really articles on "mothering").

But I do think women are more critical of each other when it comes to parenting than men. It's because girls have been socialized since birth to cut each other down socially in terms of whether they are "female" enough in how they look, how they dress, who their friends are (just as men have been socialized since boyhood to compete on the basis of toughness and sports). Parenting is something women judge each other on harshly because they see it as so central to their identities as women. If someone else is doing it differently, well, she must be doing it wrong!!!!