Knausgaard sometimes speaks in interviews and public appearances of an irony inherent in the name of the book; where Hitler is all ideology and rigid perfection in "Mein Kampf," Knausgaard's struggle as a middle-class dad is quotidian, messy, faintly ridiculous.
In the 1920s and 30s middle-class dads were urged to rush from the commuter train to the nursery for pre-slumber rough and tumble.
In Sweden, where 8 in 10 fathers take parental leave, it has become "very uncool" for middle-class dads to depend on moms' help in consoling a crying baby, Petra Persson, a Swedish economist at Stanford University, told me recently.
Womad The annual World Of Music Arts And Dance has long been the favourite of middle-class dads but its lineups are increasingly eclectic, not just for range of styles but the balance of contemporary and heritage acts.
The federal and state enforcement system works well when collecting child support from middle-class dads with jobs, she said, "but the fathers of poor children are often themselves poor and the logic of forcing them to pay the cost of welfare is not compelling".
They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid.
Determinedly middle class (his dad is an X-ray technician, his mom a teacher's aide), Boland can afford Bucknell's $35,000 in tuition and fees only with the help of financial aid.
The first was in the Mail, which said she wasn't working class, but middle class, because her dad had a farm and she rode horses.
Pity the middle class family with four children, Dad earns £50,000 and Mum doesn't work.
The Social Security page of Ernst's campaign website only quotes her as saying, "I believe that we must first and foremost protect the promises made to our seniors, like my own mom and dad, and those middle class parents who are already paying into the system on their own pathway toward retirement.
