"if you can't afford to leave your kids (with daycare or a carer) " - some lawnmower parents won't even their kids with close relatives - many apparently boug

"if you can't afford to leave your kids (with daycare or a carer) " - some lawnmower parents won't even their kids with close relatives - many apparently bought into the "nuclear family" (parent[s] + kids) and not the extended family. About the extended family, or the replacement by a close neighborhood group, parents are on their own - - and that's a recipe for disaster.