Angela Garbes is a Seattle-based writer whose new book focuses on the need for communities to support caregivers. In “Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change,” Garbes examines the structural failures that make child-rearing so difficult in the United States.
While Garbes has been interviewed on national programs including the Daily Show with Trevor Noah and on NPR’s Fresh Air, she welcomed the opportunity to reflect on the specific challenges of rearing children in Seattle. ...