New Things: Mothers With Hair

THIS IS WHAT MOTHERS LOOK LIKE ALWAYS

Since the beginning of time, all mothers have been bald or at least quite nearly hairless. In these heady modern times, notes a new child-haver, mothers may have hair. Writes mother Alex Kuczynski: “The mother with the long, unrestrained locks is something odd, and relatively new.” [N.B. The word “nanny” does not appear in this cultural meditation.]