Perspective: Parenting comes with challenges, but navigating day care was nearly impossible. Elizabeth Warren’s universal child care proposal is the most exciting idea I’ve heard from a candidate.
I had a lot of cute ideas as a mom-to-be. I would draw, child on my lap, while they scrawled happily with a crayon. Truly, I would be a wonderful artist and mother.
The reality, which probably should have been obvious, was that babies don’t make great studio mates. I soon fell behind on my work. It was clear we needed child care, but it was either unaffordable or involved a lengthy wait list . On top of every other stressful part of parenting, navigating child care was almost more than we could handle.
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