Motherhood Quote by Eric Braeden

Braeden’s line lands like a time capsule from an older commonsense feminism: practical, workplace-oriented, and still tethered to the idea that the mother is the emotional and logistical center of childcare. He’s not arguing against women working; he’s conceding it as reality ("If both parents must work") and then pivoting to a fix that sounds almost European in its concreteness: onsite childcare integrated into the workday, not treated as a separate life you drop off at 8 a.m. and retrieve at 6 p.m. The repetition of "many times a day" is the tell. He’s imagining parenting as a series of small check-ins, not a single handoff.

The subtext, though, is the cultural default he can’t quite shake: when work and family collide, it’s the mother whose proximity matters most. Fathers are absent from the logistical fantasy, not out of malice but because the script he’s working from is familiar - motherhood as primary attachment, fatherhood as optional support. That’s why the quote reads both progressive and dated: it critiques corporations for pretending employees are disembodied labor, yet it reinforces the gendered assumption about who must stay close.

Contextually, coming from a long-running soap star, it tracks with a genre built on domestic stakes and intimate crises. The corporate solution he proposes is less ideology than melodrama management: reduce the daily separation, reduce the heartbreak. In 2026 terms, it also quietly gestures at a post-remote-work tension: if offices insist on presence, they’re on the hook for the human costs of that demand.