Both mothers and teachers (both male and female) experience a similar cultural disregard. In a society that claims to care deeply about children, where every other politician and public official claims that education is the most important social agenda, the people whose primary responsibility it is to raise and teach the young tend to be disrespected and devalued. The dissonance between the public rhetoric that refers to “children as our most precious resource” and the reality, as reflected in how little we value those who nourish them, is deafening.