Suffocated between two diaper sizes. Invisible amidst digital calendars that remind us of appointments with other people's "first-degree" relatives. Crushed by an army of human resources that treats us as if we were being given "vacation" to demand hard-won rights. Buried in a system that thrives on us, women in our forties and fifties who care, work, and care, care, care, care until others take over and care for us, care, care, care; or not.

My eye is twitching, and it's only July. And I don't want to complain too much because I'm incredibly lucky to be a teacher and can balance my four children's vacations well. Three months, four teenagers, four meals a day. They eat a lot, and the issue is no longer making lunch, it's planning it and making it substantial and satisfying. Just think, if I have to start coating chicken breasts with breadcrumbs, I should have started in April.

When you look at it from a more focused perspective, feeling guilty as a parent isn't as bad as it may seem. It means reflecting on what you do and don't do, and evaluating your actions and inactions. I highly doubt that people who don't feel guilty about parenthood are perfect parents; they simply don't engage in this self-assessment exercise. Out of a sense of self-worth or survival, I don't know.

The future family law will include a paid leave of seven days a year to care for a family member or partner, as announced on Thursday by the Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, during her speech at the conference "A law to protect all families", organised to analyse the White Paper prepared by the OECD and the European Commission, which diagnoses the current situation of family protection in Spain and raises a set of recommendations.

A court in Ibiza has granted the mother of two twin daughters - recognised as a single parent family - the leave that would correspond to the other parent, in addition to her own. The judge has given her eight more weeks of leave, as reported by the Balearic Islands Nursing Union (Satse), which had appeared in the case - the affected person is a health worker -, and says it is the first time it happens in the Balearic Islands.