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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The insane waitlists for daycare.

The nanny shortage.

The lack of parental leave.

What can reasonably be done to even take a step in the right direction?[/quote]

Stay home and you take care of your children.  I did.  Why can't you?[/quote]

So, your answer is to keep women out of the workforce?  [/quote]

Not women.  There are SAHD and will be more and more of them.  For the first year, a baby needs a parent.  A grandparent can step in but a parent is best.  [/quote]

Ok, so how about a year of parental leave? Some of us can't afford to just leave our jobs and/or would have a lot of trouble getting a new one without moving cross-country. Other countries do this. It's possible.[/quote]

You just can't imagine avoiding the two-income trap?[/quote]

DP.  I can’t imagine pulling all of those people from the workforce.  If you include every parent who is the lower earner in the family and still has children at home, that includes most of my kids teachers, our pediatrician, all of the dental hygienists at my dentist’s practice, and probably quite a few more that I can’t think of off the top of my head.  It would be mind-boggling.  
There also wouldn’t be enough income and taxes generated to pay for most of the government programs we have in place, including Medicare and social security.  
This plan sounds bad.  [/quote]

It's also simply bad for most families to rely on one income these days. For people who can make it work, great, but there are too many risks in today's economy. [/quote]

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