The Geography of Long-distance Parenting
“Not every parent has the privilege of being near their children in a globalizing economy”. Growing up as millennials most of us have witnessed a society in which long-distance parenting was the preserve of a few career profiles. Itinerancy has always been part of human societies; however, for our past generations, a safety net of joint-families and strong community networks had always been a reliable cushion insulating the blows of parental separation from their little ones. With a changing...