> same politicians that insist on allowing the free-market to dictate childcare costs? I'm going to be honest. Im a republican voter living in Portland Oregon

> same politicians that insist on allowing the free-market to dictate childcare costs? I'm going to be honest. Im a republican voter living in Portland Oregon of all places. It's a high cost of living area. We go to a fairly traditional church where couples of all incomes are having 4-5 kids each and usually one spouse working. So basically, we go to church with other republicans living in a high cost of living area. I vote the way I do because I honestly don't understand child care. I was never put in child care the way people seem to do it now I'll be honest when I see my neighbors put their few weeks old babies into daycare I am simply filled with horror. Yet the parents seem to think this arrangement is great. Children should be at home with their mom or dad. I know many couples in this same area making it work. They have richer lives because having a spouse at home leads to greater community involvement and better neighborhoods. Moreover, when I talk to my neighbors about finances, it is dubious whether they're actually making more. They're also not taking into account basic costs that inevitably crop up. For example because my wife stays at home, we have one car. Because my wife stays at home, our entire community will get fed when they have a new baby because the mom's have arranged meal trains amongst themselves as a standard 'benefit'. Because of how close the mom's are after seeing each other day in and day out, we often 'share' money. If a family is having a tough time, money is just shoved onto them. This means things like emergencies are much less scary. Again, these are all costs those families would have to incur if they both worked and couldn't take part in the community. Even childcare for things like date night can be arranged pretty easily. It's amazing and I estimate we save thousands upon thousands per year because of it. Elizabeth Warren of all people covers these hidden benefits of staying at home extremely well in her book 'The Two income trap'. I highly recommend it. Now going back to politics. I would venture that many more republicans have my arrangement. Thus when we see calls to subsidize daycare, we see people wanting our tax money for less desirable outcomes. Children raised at daycare instead of parents. Parents too stressed out that they the report they have no 'village'. Lack of community in our cities and towns and rural areas, etc. Lonelines. All these things are symptoms of the continued financialization of the nuclear family, the extended family, and the neighborhood. And yes I'm very much against that.