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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having small kids and taking care of them is the most isolating and tiring experience even when there is no pandemic.

People need to also understand that having more than 1 or 2 kids is not easy. No one owes the raising of your kids to you. The parents have to raise them. If they are lucky they will have paid or unpaid caregivers at various times but it is not a guarantee.

If you cannot do it on your own and do it well then don't have kids. [/quote]

Oh shut up. [/quote]

This poster isn’t wrong though…when the going gets tough, raising kids is entirely on the parents.[/quote]

Absolutely. But do you understand how many people had to work in person over pandemic that had no childcare resources? Our children are absolutely our responsibility…but no one has 11 back up plans for plague. It’s so dismissive. [/quote]

Yes, it's a pat answer that really has no connection to reality.  So the nurse/ essential worker you need more than ever to be working has no child care -- but that just means she shouldn't have had kids?  What about the guy bringing you your groceries so you can bunker down with your family--should he have created a pandemic-proof backup childcare system 8 years ago in anticipation of potential world pandemic? We structure society in ways that maximize public wellbeing that involve interdependence. In all sorts of ways - hardly just childcare.  It is just idiot magical thinking to say everyone can/should immediately be able to cope and flourish without these structures.[/quote]

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