my point is not that parenting is unchallenging, nor do i think our culture values it highly enough. my point is that this language is degrading and dehumanizing.
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Replying to @micsolana
I do not think so at all. Care-based professions, whether they are for kids, elders or others, are systematically under compensated precisely because they are just thoughtlessly relegated to women in the household or often to undocumented labor w little rights/negotiating power.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @micsolana
You’re quibbling about the language but not seeing the very real behavior it is referring to, which is the dehumanizing part.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @micsolana
I think the author would agree w some of the points you’re making about how we don’t put enough resources in this and is using this linguistic framing to underscore that.
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A lot rides on the "labor" part. It's not just degrading, it's dystopian. Most stay-at-home parents don't consider what they're doing the provision of a service fungible with what's otherwise available on the market. And indeed, it isn't.
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Replying to @webdevMason @antoniogm and
It takes a lot of time + energy & represents an opportunity cost for someone who'd otherwise work, but it doesn't belong in the labor frame. Even if you want the government to subsidize it, which I think it probably should, you're not going to have billable Loving My Kid hours
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Maybe not seeing aspects of care as “labor” is precisely the reason there isn’t political will for the government to adequately subsidize it, especially for pre-K unlike most other industrialized countries.
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Do stay-at-home moms in countries with appropriately subsidized childcare systems think of what they do with their kids any more like labor than stay-at-home moms here? I honestly just think the causal claim here is wrong
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I don't understand what's dehumanizing here. We literally call the act of giving birth "LABOR"
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @antoniogm and
You're using market norms of labor to social norms within a family. You're also conflating professional childcare with the kin work done in a family. They aren't the same.
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