Re:Hunter-gatherer childcare suggests new key to mother and ...
by leononame on Monday November 27, 2023 @10:01AM
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Do you have any evidence supporting this?
Re:Hunter-gatherer childcare suggests new key to mother and ...
by lotsofpulp on Monday November 27, 2023 @11:11AM
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Sorry, I missed the “first years” portion of your comment. I had originally read it as simply paying people to be stay at home parents for the whole time they have children at home.
Paid parental leave up until at least breastfeeding is done is a no brainer.
Re:Hunter-gatherer childcare suggests new key to mother and ...
by rexpop on Monday November 27, 2023 @05:44PM
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Just spitballing, here, but maybe some sort of voucher system to distribute leave among all your "alloparents?" But that's hard to systematize. Probably the simplest thing is simply to increase wages and PTO across the board, and let workers/consumers act on their own priorities.
Re:Hunter-gatherer childcare suggests new key to mother and ...
by em-bee on Monday November 27, 2023 @09:20PM
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no need for vouchers. we just need the right and the support for more people to work part time. that right for example is already law in germany. the problem is that not many people make use of it, partly because it would reduce their income but partly also because there is no broad social support for people to reduce their worktime in order to do other useful things.
Re:Hunter-gatherer childcare suggests new key to mother and ...
by em-bee on Monday November 27, 2023 @09:17PM
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actually it is possible: education. basically, the reason one might not want some people to have kids is their lack of education. provide them with better education and that "problem" goes away.
What society really wants is to incentivize good parents to have kids, but that is nowhere near possible to measure and implement.