Why not have a first class nursery at the job site and allow the mother extra breaks?
Why not leave it to employers and/or employees to figure out on their own?
This would be better in terms of quality in childcare.
In any case we need to up our birthrates here in the USA to avoid getting eaten alive by the Saracens
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>> “Why not have a first class nursery at the job site and allow the mother extra breaks?” <<
Why not just have a strong enough economy so that no mother needs to work?
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I’m long past having babies, but our daughter had her first last October. Her employer gives 3 months maternity leave (paid). His employer gives 6 weeks. From what I saw, they needed every minute.
The baby was nursing, like every other hour for an hour, around the clock during the first maybe 2 months. How do you get up every other hour, nurse a baby, then wake up to go to work by 9?
With the leave time and eventually weaning, they were able to get said baby on a schedule so she sleeps from @ 6:30pm till @ 6:00am, allowing both parents a full nights sleep. When they show up at the office they are wide awake AND productive. Sounds like that generous maternity/paternity leave policy worked out well in this case.
I’d prefer any such leave arrangement being an employer/employee agreement rather than government dictate. Some employers, tho, would not be so generous. Some cannot afford to be so generous, or they would have to close up shop. This could end up with fewer women of baby-rearing ages finding jobs. (lots of opening for us seniors!)
Hell....grocery stores too..and free unicorns for all!!!
That, of course, makes women less productive for their employers and results in lower salaries unless men are forced to subsidize the less productive workers which then makes the men less productive themselves or causes them to find employment in a company that rewards them for their entire productive value.
The root of the problem, the cause is the devaluation of the dollar.
Why not reverse how the dollar has been so devalued (for decades) that women were FORCED to go to work and leave the care of their children to (often) strangers, in order to survive.
Back in the 1950’s, we reacted with shock and horror when we heard how those poor Soviet women had to actually leave their babies in the care of others, and work at jobs outside the home! Socialism! Communism!
Used to be a family of five could live well on just the father’s income. Then, as they devalued the dollar, more and more women had to work outside the home to provide that second income.
Properly revalue the dollar, follow the Constitution of LIMITED GOV’T and SPENDING, and women won’t have to get credit for “child care”. They can stay home and raise their children themselves, with their values and religious beliefs.
Those of us old enough may remember mothers at home, in a calm, un-frenzied environment, focused on their children. They did not stick them in front of the TV or computer to babysit them while the exhausted mother rushes to make dinner and start her night job= homemaker, wife, and mother.
As a retired teacher, I can tell you I would always notice a change in the students behavior as soon as the mom worked outside the home. Day care centers for children are like zoos are for animals.
If you have them, raise them yourselves, (WHENEVER POSSIBLE!!)
JUST MY OPINION.