A lot of things in western[ized] societies have become professionalized over the last few decades, and are now taxed and regulated. Caring for small children is

A lot of things in western[ized] societies have become professionalized over the last few decades, and are now taxed and regulated. Caring for small children is one of the biggest example of this. It's no wonder that many people see caring for their children as just another job when it's something that is increasingly contracted out to third parties, and children's expectations are no doubt being shaped as consumers of a pasteurized, homogenized service that's delivered by graduates and subject to metrics and KPIs. I wouldn't be surprised if these sentiments, exacerbated by feelings of guilt (eg. overcompensation for perceived neglect), were to spill out into the rest of family life.