Horwitz on work-family balance and trade-offs

MOJ-friend Paul Horwitz has an as-per-usual thoughtful post at Prawfsblawg, "Writing Guilt and Gender", about (among other things) the trade-offs we make between our professional and family obligations.  Here's a bit:

My own view would be to encourage academics to feel an appropriate amount of need to balance professional and personal obligations, and not to convince themselves that the right approach is no guilt at all.  Perhaps we should all be thinking more about our families.  But I would say there is no better reason to feel guilt about writing than about the other aspects of one's job, even though writing inevitably involves stretches of thought and reflection.

Check it out.