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What we need is safe and supportive [b]childcare and eldercare[/b] in this world. These are basics, weapons and designer goods aren't. We as a society should be supportive to each other. [/quote]

Traditionally, family filled those roles. [/quote]

But when in your 40s, full time job, menopause, demanding kids and also need to look after your parents...

... you get suicidal.

The in-family eldercare has gone the way of the dodo, except in countries where household help is still cheap, or in places so underdeveloped that women are always home. [/quote]

Yep.  There is no way for one person to do it all.  [/quote]

Caregiving (child and elder) is an incredibly important cornerstone of society that is so depressingly undervalued. And now that women have better options than the bear the brunt of it themselves, we are realizing how much exploitation of generally female unpaid labor was used to keep society going.

Even now still, many caregiver positions (daycares, nursing homes, etc.) are wildly underpaid and cost more than many households can absorb. We need to stop looking at this as some individual problem that families need to just figure out how to solve with the good ole pulling up of bootstraps and realize it’s a societal issue. I still don’t understand how we aren’t more evolved yet in this regard. The early childcare are financially crushing for many families and most families can’t afford (time or money-wise) raise children and take care of aging parents without a mental breakdown.[/quote]

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