Karoline Leavitt is leaving one of the most visible jobs in American politics.

She is 28 years old. She has two young children.

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And after returning from maternity leave, she reached a conclusion people should treat as a warning: The demands of the White House press secretary job cannot coexist with the mother she wants to be. 

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Her politics are irrelevant. What matters is that a young mother reached the top of political communications and found the job’s expectations fundamentally incompatible with her life. And she is not an outlier.

Susan Brooks left Congress to care for her children and aging parents.

Rose Pugliese left the Colorado House while raising her children alone and working multiple jobs.

Autumn Burke left the California Assembly because her family needed flexibility.

Different parties. Different states. Different eras. The same collision — repeated often enough to qualify as institutional design, not a coincidence.

We should stop calling it a personal choice long enough to ask what kind of system keeps forcing it.

Anyone who has seriously considered political life knows the math. Ambition demands travel, nights away, weekends consumed, and a steady siphoning of the ordinary........

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