#either you have enough kindegartens and whole day schools and the moms are able to join the workforce quickly again

[darthlenaplant]

Yeah. Like. Treating the education of children like the massive responsibility it IS, should NOT mean we as a society need to move back 100 years in societal development. They don't say "it takes a village" for nothing, and if anything, men should be able to be stay-at-home fathers too, and I DO MEAN that ECONOMICALLY (because men's wages are STILL higher than women's even in the same field, with the same qualifications). Getting a child is prohibitively expensive by the year, and then the rich have the GALL to bitch about poor people complaining because they have no money to rear a child. And the racist policy makers complain all the time about the "wrong" people having too many children anyway.

Before the advent of the nuclear family in one household, it was NORMAL for a kid to be raised in a home that was like. 1-4 grandparents, parents, siblings, sometimes also siblings of parents and their children even. But those kinds of living situations are harder to exploit for monetary reasons.

Wether it is UBI (or some half-version of it) or just that ANY job (and be it bloody PART TIME) gives a worker enough money to be able to comfortably take care of a kid, the situation as it is will NOT become better if we go tradwife style.

can i be honest im 100% for the fact that like the tradwife stay at home mom thing is really fucked culturally but also like i think we as a society have to figure this shit out because a child needs the equivalent (if not more) of a full time job's worth of work from an adult who (for the health of the child and for the ethics of the situation honestly) needs to be able to function in a way that isn't making the adult miserable because being raised by miserable adults has really tangible negative impacts on children. whether its community childcare so that simply more adults can be involved in the situation or much more robust social aid towards young families. like this might he stupidly idealistic but i think really the root of a lot of issues in society come from the fact that people refuse to understand the gravity of like. parenthood. its an insane responsibility. i think it should be treated as such