The Joy of Being the “Default Parent”0

• Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
• January 10, 2026

Author and mother Gina Bontempo noted on X recently that the online uproar over a woman being the “default parent” in her child’s life smacks of the lie that men and women can, and should, be treated as interchangeable. For those unfamiliar with internet lingo, the phenomenon in question is as old as mothers and