if it were my job to create propaganda for the purpose of reducing the human population, one thing i would do is reframe parenting as “unpaid labor”https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1258094215361413121 …
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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.
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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