The U.S. Leaves Parents On Their Own for a Reason

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The U.S. Leaves Parents On Their Own for a Reason

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https://www.theatlantic.com/family/arch ... it/661276/

The U.S. Leaves Parents On Their Own for a Reason

America’s lack of family support rests on a false assumption: that providing help discourages parents from taking responsibility for their children.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/arch ... it/661276/

https://archive.ph/KfzX1



On so many measures of family hardship, young children and their parents in the U.S. suffer more than their counterparts in other high-income nations. Babies are more likely to die and children are more likely to grow up in poverty. The U.S. is the only rich country in the world without national paid family leave. And while other wealthy countries spend an average of $14,000 each year per child on early-childhood care, the U.S. spends a miserly $500. Underlying each of these bleak truths appears to be the same, misguided belief: that government support for parents is at odds with parents being responsible for their kids.

Once you start looking for it, this idea is everywhere. It has been used to argue that open strollers should not be accommodated on New York City bus ramps (“Just stop being lazy; just fold the damn stroller!” admonished one person at a transit-authority meeting in March); to justify the lifting of mask mandates before a vaccine for the youngest children was available (parents should protect small children, said a D.C. health official); to explain why the government should not make child care affordable (“I’ve never really felt it was society’s responsibility to take care of other people’s children,” mused Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin).
Disgusting cons is why.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216810996

DU link has all the links. STUPID fucking cons are why we are so far behind the rest of the world.
I sigh in your general direction.
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