Whatever you do, don’t broach the subject of the systematic destruction of the family that’s necessitated the massive demand (and resultant cost increase) of childcare. Which disproportionately affects minorities on a massive scale.
Hmmm. Not sure I see it this way. I see the demand for childcare as both parents feeling the need to work. I'm not taking single mothers into account. Maybe I should be. And I'm speaking for my generation, which isn't necessarily in scope here.
Anyway, I'm an Xer. Me and my sister had to figure a lot of shit out on our own. Our parents were working. We actually got left alone to manage the house when I was 7 and she was 5. Mom taught me how to boil water to make mac and cheese and hotdogs for lunch if we wanted something hot. Otherwise, it was sandwiches. Didnt matter to them, as long as we figured it out. I don't know how many times I burned my hands on a hot pot because I wasn't being careful. I had to learn quickly to figure shit out. And, I also don't know how many times they came home and found something wrong that they had to deal with. We were doing our best, but we were kids. Mom and Dad got home and wanted to relax for a bit, and didn't want to have to deal with anything. So I learned real fast to have the house clean and have any kind of issues tidied up. Basically, I had to learn how to be a grown up at age 7 or 8. That's fucking hard.
It's hard to grow up that way. It's like telling a kindergartner to figure out how to solve an algebra equation. They're just gonna fuck it up. Fortunately, my fuck ups when we were growing up weren't life threatening. My parents did their best with what they had, and what they felt was right. In the meantime, they raised a couple of fucked up kids. One of whom is dead.
My parents have both passed on. Yeah, they did their best, but I always swore that I would do so much better by my children. And I have. They both have awesome jobs, and I'm so fucking proud of them. At the end of the day, that's all that matters to me. Nothing else.
Sorry, that got long. But I just felt like typing it all out. If it was a waste of your time, I apologize.
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