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thats one way to put it. as a worker I still plan to leave the US to the EU (where I also have citizenship) before I have children. The US is too far behind, an
by noemit 9y ago
thats one way to put it. as a worker I still plan to leave the US to the EU (where I also have citizenship) before I have children. The US is too far behind, and the culture in Europe is better - paid leave + family structures to support having children. I can't imagine putting my kids in daycare. The US is very very different than the EU in terms of family structures and family values so I don't think we can really copy and paste what they've done.
- wahern 9y agoDid anybody else catch this line from President Trump's State of the Union speech? The fourth and final pillar protects the nuclear family by ending chain migration That literally says that 1) extended families threaten nuclear families, and 2) we should prefer as a matter of public policy the dissolution of extended families in favor of nuclear families. It's obviously a very awkward attempt to reframe the debate and defend against accusations of racism. Though, it does neither and taken at face value is anathema to the expressed values of conservative rural Americans, if not all Americans. OTOH, Americans, rural or not, obviously do prefer nuclear families over extended families. Americans want to live near family, but never with family. So there's something peculiarly honest about Trump's logic.