Caitlin Flanagan is one of my favorite essayists, and here is my favorite essay of hers, "The Wifely Duty": <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200301/flanagan" rel="nofollow">http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200301/flanagan</a><p>If you are young or single or childless, it's not for you.  Yet.