Hi Steven, I really enjoyed this piece. I think it’s comprehensive. You mention that women bear the disproportionate burden of child care but there’s more to be said, I think, about how child care is devalued and how women lose and suffer when they have children - their careers suffer, their income suffers, they are more vulnerable to abusive partners AND the child care work they do is not valued. Those who work in child care outside the home are not paid well or valued. I am a mom of one child. I am a professional woman who had a child later in life and then raised her by myself (not really by choice). Being a mom has been an amazing experience for me - at the same time it has been the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I agree with you - a key shift that has to happen is that society has to treat (respect, protect ,support and compensate) those who bear and care for children commensurately with the value that reproduction has to society. Thanks again. Love your work.
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