The “looming childcare crisis”, by creating sharp incentive gradients both away from dual-income households to stay-at-home parenting AND from high-scrupulously, high-investment “helicopter parenting” to blithe low-investment “latchkey parenting”, almost feels like a targeted intervention to bring back Gen X childhood
(All while the popular intellectuals are like “see we need to get past the nuclear family centered on a monogamous dyad” and get back the disturbing response “you’re right, incest is hot”)
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