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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would certainly love to see gun control measures passed but I worry the most about traffic safety. We are a car-obsessed country.  [/quote]

That's a mistake, as gun deaths have now passed traffic deaths as the biggest cause of death for kids. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/14/magazine/gun-violence-children-data-statistics.html[/quote]

We should care about both. Countries that have taken dramatic steps to reduce one have usually also taken dramatic steps to reduce the other. Often around the same time in history. Countries like the Netherlands were motivated to totally redesign their transportation infrastructure back in the 70s because of the number of children being killed in traffic accidents, and they also passed strict gun control laws around the same time. It's a reflection of a culture that highly values the safety and welfare of children.

These countries also do things like give money to all families so they can feed and clothe their kids regardless off income (Finland) or provide extensive post-natal care and parental leaves and subsidized childcare, and this is done largely to benefit kids, not parents (though it does benefit parents). The idea is that children deserve the best possible start in life. And this stuff isn't restricted to Scandinavia. You see more child-centric policies in Africa, Asia, the Mid-East, than you do in the US. Often these policies are portrayed as feminist or pro-women, but that's not how they are conceptualized elsewhere. They are pro-child.

[b]Americans do not value children. We do not value their lives, their education, their happiness.[/b] Our individualistic culture extends even to children. It's like a cult.[/quote]

+100[/quote]

I wouldn't put it this pessimistically, but we absolutely DO take the individualistic, "everyone can make their own choices" mentality too far. It doesn't count as supporting families making their own choices when policymakers are forcing parents to have fewer kids or be SAHPs when they don't want to, because of financial burden. Totally agree we need to invest in real childcare infrastructure and support working parents.[/quote]

P.S. I wish the conservative politicians who oppose supporting working moms would realize what an *economic* benefit it is for people to have access to affordable childcare.

Even if you only think in terms of dollar value, it is a win for society.[/quote]

How does it feel to live your life gaslighting everyone? Making childcare affordable was a Trump-led bill in 2020 that democrats refused to take sign on to because they care more about playing partisan games than actual lives. [/quote]

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