The Care Gap (by Mother Honestly)’s Post

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We're Americans. We can't take a day off of our kid is sick, so we send them to daycare and get everyone else's kids sick. We're Americans. Our childcare costs more than our rent. We're Americans. We expect women to work like they don't mother and mother like they don't work. We're Americans. We have policies of forced pregnancy but no access to affordable basic healthcare or childcare. It's horrible. We're Americans. We have the worst maternal death rate of developed countries and no postpartum care because if you have a baby, that's on you. We're Americans. We believe that paid family leave will hurt the economy, even though research shows that it would increase our GDP by 5%.