This is something that's grinded my gears for a long time. I go for walks and drives quite regularly to keep active, and there's one thing that I've noticed over and over again on my outings, and that is this. Picture the following:

A mom, walking with a stroller/baby carrier while also trying to wrangle multiple toddlers, flustered and doing her best. About 10 paces ahead of her? Her baby daddy/husband/boyfriend, walking very fast and ahead of his family, face buried in his smartphone, while neglecting the fact that the MOTHER OF HIS CHILDREN is lagging behind him.

This isn't just once or twice I have seen this; I've seen this SO many times I've made angry comments to my friends about it, and guess what? They've seen the same damn thing play out.

Like if you can't even walk alongside your family on a leisurely Sunday afternoon in favour of your damn phone, then why the hell did you choose the family way? The shocking part about this is that these couples are millennials around my age. It makes me wonder why they decide to get married and have children OH YES I KNOW because by getting married you gain a Mommy McBangmaid who looks after not only you, but your children! And what's so hard about having children when you don't need to take care of them? That's what moms are for!

Of course, you can't judge a family based off a 10-second interaction that you see of them. But my god, when does it stop being an anomaly and start being a toxic pattern? She's not your damn nanny, freaking grow up and raise your children. I swear, this is why men get applauded for doing the most basic, bare minimum things. Because they have these assholes to set the bar at Dante's 7th circle of hell.