Articles like this highlight symptoms of a great revolution and intense fear in society among a certan sub group of the middle class. It does not reflect the whole middle class.
The sub group is typicaly metropolitan London, bohemian, Islington, North Oxford. Typically they are people who had a very comfortable childhood brought up in a household where mother either didnt work or worked in charity or similar while Dad was something like an academic, writer, publisher, perhaps a doctor or one of the professions. Life was comfortable, not privelleged or upper class but enough money to have family holidays, buy a nice house in leafy suburb and near a good state Grammar school and on to a Russle group University.
They value educaton, they were well educated themselves but the job they do no longer pays what they feel they deserve given ther educational achievement. As a result, this sub class now feels threatened and frightened. Anxious they cannot give their children the certainty and comfort of their own childhood. The house they live is nothing like as big or sumptious as the house they lived in as a child. They cannot afford private school so they are forced down the route of having tutors for their children and desperate hope of passing 11+ o buying an expensive house in a catchment area. The intense anxiety of encroachng job losses due to the internet and globalisation plus the crippling costs of housing as they are pushed out by the hated bankers all leads to a sense of deep anxiety, resentment and fear.
It is mothers in this subgroup who perhaps feel this intensity of fear most and guilt they are not bringing ther children up as well as they should. Compensating by adopting a kind of faux bucolic life of pefect motherhood while desperately juggling the credit card bill and for ever comparing themselves with other mothers.