No suggestion that the Baroness is one.

She is the UK appointment as 'foreign minister' of the European Union and an EU commissioner, and has other appointments.

She is under fire for twagging roughly two out of five meetings of the Commissioners. Reportedly they will not allow deputies to come instead, or attendance to be by skype or anything like that, lest it encourage others, so the UK voice has, seemingly been unheard.

It is said that one reason for her low attendance is that she insists on spending week-ends at home, but her office also claims that she is fulfilling (...or not) roles previously done by three people.

So what is this to do with shared parenting and neglecting children?

Rather a lot.

Because it is another example of how things are organised by and for our rulers. So much is expected of them that anyone who has responsibility for dependants, or even expects a normal life, such as week-ends at home, is seen as unable to do the work. And/or they will lose out in the competition for top jobs because they are at a competitive disadvantage compared with those without family responsibilities  or not fulfilling them.

So we end up with top positions, in the Law and professions, in politics and among 'opinion formers', in business and employers and so on, disproportionately filled by men (yes, nearly always still men) who don't have children or who leave meeting their needs to others.

Now by the nature of their personalities these are aren't people who see themselves as child neglecters or morally subnormal in any other way. Rather, they fancy themselves as role models.

And so in the decisions that they make and shape for others, putting career ambition first and family lower is the normal and desirable thing to do, especially for men.

Where the career involves jetting round the world and talking to the rich, powerful and glamorous, this perhaps has an appeal. For the rather more numerous people for whom work is swabbing out school lavatories or driving a fork lift truck, the family is more important, for both men and women, and work is something that has to be endured to fund it.

But our rulers have mostly no insight into this life or these values.

So stand your ground, Baroness A and insist that the  routine work of government should not exclude people with more normal and desirable values. But do not hog all those tasks either, but open them up to work-share with others who may also have child-centred values. They may be able to get more of the work done than you do, and still have time for their family and other things.