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[quote=Anonymous]Yes but when we lived in Germany there was a daycare at the end of my street that had a drop in option and my hospital also had a play room I could leave my kids in so I got significantly more healthcare for myself while I lived abroad.  If I had severe dental pain I could just go to the dentist without having to jump through hoops to find a babysitter. I could see a therapist for my mental health and my husband and I could get marriage counseling. The authors point is that American society makes everything so. Damned. Hard. And then hits women over the head with this line about how “you chose this.”

I don’t recall choosing to have a long wait list for daycare at my kids school, choosing for it to cost so much despite the fact that I have been paying taxes since I started working at fifteen, and choosing NOT to have freshly prepared healthy lunches offered to my kids at school for free like they do in France. I don’t recall choosing a government that does fund maternity leave not to mention paternity leave. Because if I had a choice I wouldn’t choose any of those things.[/quote]

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