Exactly. Her kid will be just fine. It’ll be the equivalent of an unplanned gap year at worst.
I’ve been talking about the “glass floor” since the days of Stephen Glass. Once the powers that be invest in their educations and careers, they’re not allowed to fail and are given second chance after second chance after second chance (unless they’re PoC, in which case they’re made examples of to “prove” that they can’t make it in the white man’s world even when generously granted a first chance).
