Getting heirs and heiresses to practice and performance is a labor of love they confess. Their vehicles are filled with snacks, gear, pets, team-mates and often little brothers. Delivering offspring to soccer fields is only part of activities met with zeal religious. How about music lessons, ballet, swimming, roller-blade hockey as other druthers. Some children don't have familial support of Sweden, Detroit and oil barons, not hers.
Soccer moms drive daily, cook, sew and housekeep, dads devote Saturdays to their princess.
These mom's fierce devotion to getting the best for their kids make them emotional voters. Soccer moms have peer networks optimizing opportunities with all the talent they possess. How productive this frenetic effort will turn out we must leave to future scholars. We can only hope that the kids, as adults, will appreciate this expended energy as much as a caress. In the years before soccer was a known word, pioneer moms defended their kids against invaders.