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Re:Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth ... by yoyohello13 on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @01:01AM (#42777062)
> Until this, people would dedicate their lives to their kids, children were the most important thing in people’s lives, everything from friends, to outings, to day to day life, would revolve around the child’s best interests and wants.

Is this actually true? I don’t really believe it. Sending your kids to work in the sweatshops doesn’t seem like “best interests and wants.” I think people were just surviving in their time/environment. Like we are now.

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Re:Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth ... by horrible-hilde on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @11:06AM (#42781662)
its a complete lie. In the 70s we were treated like luggage. shoved in the back of the station wagon, inhaling cigarette smoke from dad, and playing at construction sites. Im not kidding, that was the affluent kid.
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Re:Japan Offers Free Daycare to Boost Tokyo's Falling Birth ... by teitoklien on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @11:21PM (#42800695)
> Is this actually true?

It is true in Asian countries and most pre-industrialised nations

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