If parents didn't have to work so many hours, I am extremely confident that many of them would choose to spend many of those freed hours with their kids. Of co

If parents didn't have to work so many hours, I am extremely confident that many of them would choose to spend many of those freed hours with their kids. Of course different people are different. Either way, it's a huge problem that currently most of the people paid to take care of kids (very especially but not only pre-public-school age) are underpaid and overworked -- this does not lead to the kind of care for our collective kids that we would want. Those paid to do childcare especially should be able to work no more hours than they can do while still being attentive and caring and fully invested, and be able to access continuing education and mentorship in how to raise kids, and still live a comfortable life. That is currently not at all how it works in the USA.