Non, the French are not better moms

August 10, 2023

The “mommy war” between stay-at-home and working mothers is in danger of being overshadowed by another maddening contest: the one between mothers in the U.S. and France. Two recent books, Pamela Druckerman’s Bringing Up Bébé and Karen Le Billon’s French Kids Eat Everything, make the case that French parents raise kids who behave and eat far better than their American counterparts.