Which is precisely why government subsidies for child-care are necessary if we're going to structure society around nuclear families with both parents working.

Which is precisely why government subsidies for child-care are necessary if we're going to structure society around nuclear families with both parents working. The cost of labour alone is enough to explain eye watering child-care costs, which means you either a) push that cost back on the consumer, b) somehow drive down the cost of labour, or c) have the government subsidize the cost of labour to make the price affordable and the businesses sustainable. We're doing (a) now and it's not sustainable, hence articles like these. To achieve (b) you'd need government intervention, anyway, as the market is already optimizing for minimizing labour cost. And thus you're left with (c), which is the path Canada has started going down recently: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/campaigns/child-care.html https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/campa...