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What is the opportunity cost of the mother going right back to work and spending no time with their newborn? Does society absorb that cost?
by moorhosj 8y ago
What is the opportunity cost of the mother going right back to work and spending no time with their newborn? Does society absorb that cost?
- UncleMeat 8y agoThe father could do that task.
- moorhosj 8y agoCertainly could, I just finished doing that for my kid. Which still doesn't answer the question of how it benefits society to push parents back into the workforce after birth of a child. The entire "opportunity cost" argument here is focused on the parent's ability to maximize wages or skills, in reality there are other "costs".