A better way to think about tech's hold on modern parenting

Amanda Hess' new book, Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age, is a memoir about modern parenting and technology.

The author relied on thousands of screenshots, text exchanges, and personal memories to complete this memoir.

Hess says the book is a gentle revolution, a meditation on how to process our digital behavior.

I was struck by the extent to which eugenics plays a role in modern pregnancy and app design.

This feels especially horrifying in our current political era and the fascist desire to build out “the West” The technology that I use that is the best is an audio baby monitor, which only does what it says it’s going to do.

The author's new book is about how millennial parenting culture emphasizes the individual, the private family.

She says she hopes we can live in a society that understands the importance of connecting parents to every other person’s needs.

One of the things I wanted to avoid with this book was making it seem like if we got rid of all technologies, then everything would be fine.