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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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
There's a nice tie-in with the Harvard homeschooling conference where several of the headliners were arguing for a much stronger right of the state to the children produced by its citizens. If child-rearing is unpaid labor, who are we working for?
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How does the fact that most people work to make money so that they can afford to spend more time raising their kids (or at least giving them a better life) fit into the picture?
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Genetically speaking, it’s only 50% unpaid labor. You’re working to propagate the genes of your partner And the other 50% is you just you directly (in the genetic sense) working for yourself. I wouldn’t call brushing my own teeth to be unpaid labor
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