In 2007, Amherst College alum Sarah Rubenstein was trying to balance raising two small children with part-time work as a litigator. Rubenstein wrote in her “Class Notes” for the alumni magazine:
The net result is not pretty—my life is a delicate balance. For example, when the contractors redoing our master bedroom failed to properly hook up the new pipes, and water came cascading down into our kitchen, I had to drop everything and deal. Or when my kids have two separate activities in two separate locations thirty minutes apart. And god forbid a kid gets sick.
