Even with employer-subsidized daycare, it was more than our mortgage. Watching what people who couldn’t make that work had to do really pushed me solidly into t

Even with employer-subsidized daycare, it was more than our mortgage. Watching what people who couldn’t make that work had to do really pushed me solidly into the camp of seeing free government-provided daycare as a basic right. Even if you’re a total sociopath who doesn’t care about the stress, there’s like a century of research showing that things like stable & supportive early years set children up to be more successful for the rest of their lives, and the challenges of finding and paying for daycare put a ton of stress on most parents, hitting the poorest the hardest.