Re:The reason employees aren't returning to work in America ...
by Frost1x on Sunday September 19, 2021 @04:17PM
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If we make childcare a societal issue then we need to broaden that to make it easier for anyone and everyone to not only care for children but have children. There are plenty of those who want children but can't have them for a variety of reasons, some of which are other related costs (medical, legal adoption, etc.).
If you select childcare alone you bias towards those can easily have children which can foster resentment and opposition for tax based support. We already do this a bit where everyone pays for for public schooling regardless to if they have children or not and we also subsidize parents further by allowing them to be claimed as dependents.
Let's not keep this limited and make it so anyone wanting a child through a socially acceptable method be able to afford them long term since ultimately that's more generically what we're taking about.
Re:The reason employees aren't returning to work in America ...
by hirako2000 on Sunday September 19, 2021 @03:40PM
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I'm all with you. I'm denouncing the dogma that put women to work. It doesn't imply that women should be kept off the work force.
At a cynical minimum it wastes tremendous resources. I want smart, competent, engaged women to have children. I also want them to choose how to direct their considerable energies as they see fit.