In a culture where career ambition often crowds out family life, writer Nicholas Clairmont offers a striking counterpoint: Having a child didn’t ruin his life. It gave him one.
Raised in an elite, success-obsessed Manhattan culture that treated babies as burdens or life-ending interruptions, Clairmont thought fatherhood was something to postpone indefinitely—if not avoid entirely. But now, with a 9-month-old daughter in his arms, he’s discovered a truth long buried under modern anxieties: parenthood isn’t chaos, it’s clarity.
"It’s actually super fun, massively easier than anyone tells you, and so energizing and clarifying that if you are an ambitious person, you should have a kid out of pure personal selfishness."
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