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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous[b]]I hope you support paid family leave and universal affordable childcare, and candidates that push for those policies.[/b] [/quote]

I do, but in the past, everyone started having kids in their early 20's and none of these things existed. [/quote]

Wow.  You are so clueless.[/quote]

Really, how?  Are you trying to suggest that in the past, when everyone was having kids in their early 20's, that there was paid family leave and universal affordable childcare? [/quote]

"Everyone" wasn't having kids in their early 20s.  Many people never married at all--because they could not afford to.

There wasn't paid family leave or universal affordable childcare--married women of certain classes weren't allowed to work, anyway.  Poorer women who had to work outside the home left their kids with relatives, or neighbors, or older siblings, or took them into the fields with them, or tied them to the table leg.  [/quote]

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