Re:We Can't Let People Work from Home, for Stupid Reasons
by closeparen on Monday June 21, 2021 @05:30PM
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There's a huge space of professional and community childcare options other than "extended family" and "don't have kids". That the dual-income middle class has been using for decades.
We can throw up our hands and either say a) stop moving away from your extended family, b) deal with the struggle, or c) don't have kids. Or we can use our big brains and try to figure out a better way for everyone to live where/how they want, but also be able to raise kids in a loving, supportive environment where the parents can still get a break sometimes.
I don't know what that better way is, but I think it's pretty fatalistic and defeatist to assume it doesn't exist.