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Penelope Trunk  recently wrote a wonderfully iconoclastic column in The Huffington Post entitled Hold CEOs Accountable for Their Bad Parenting.   It seems that corporate boards don’t mind their CFO’s having mistresses, or even having three mistresses at once: they just don’t like it when all three mistresses go public and embarrass the company. 

Even more horrifying, however, is how universally this “success” culture celebrates bad parenting by lauding wealthy fathers who work 100-hour weeks and assure their colleagues that “My Family is You.”

Trunk writes:

I can’t decide which is more pathetic — the way these men approach their role as a parent, or the way that Fortune magazine writes about it without any commentary.

How can there be no mention of the fact that these CEOs are neglecting their kids?

We have a double standard in our society: If you are poor and you abandon your kids, you are a bad parent. But if you are rich and you abandon them to run a company, you are profiled in Fortune magazine.

Don’t miss the article, nor the comments, either.  One is by Harvard Business School’s Bob Sutton.

Who washes his own family’s dishes.

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