> I really don't think subsidization is an answer. It punishes parents that figured out how to make things work w/o daycare. My take is that needing to figure

> I really don't think subsidization is an answer. It punishes parents that figured out how to make things work w/o daycare. My take is that needing to figure this out is the real punishment here. France has the highest fertility rate in the EU (and higher than that of the US) and subsidies apparently are the way forward. They need to be applied correctly though. My country is currently doing worse than Japan even though it's spending, as a percentage of GDP, than France on subsidies - these are in the form of what amounts to an UBI scheme for parents per child. The US has a lot of low-hanging fruit here, like having any sort of actual parental leave, not just whatever pittance the employer throws in people's way.