> Stay at home moms do not provide a less valuable service than childcare providers.

I don't know how can anyone arrive at that conclusion.

> This policy appears to disincentives children staying with their mother even when it is preferred.

This assertion is baffling and far-fetched. There is only one beneficiary of this policy: families who desperately needed access to childcare but could not possibly afford it. With this policy, those who needed childcare but were priced out of the market will be able to access the service they needed. I don't think that extreme poverty and binding a mother to homecare is a valid incentive cor "children staying with their mother".

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bluGill 2 days ago | parent [-]

> With this policy, those who needed childcare but were priced out of the market will be able to access the service they needed.

And the rich parents who can afford childcare are also given a subsidy. A married parent who wants to stay home but can't quite afford it is forced to work. Is this really what you want? If it is the poor your care about why not subsidies just them?

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motorest 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> And the rich parents who can afford childcare are also given a subsidy.

That's fine.

> A married parent who wants to stay home but can't quite afford it is forced to work.

I don't get what point you think you're making. Do you believe that not offering universal child care changed that?

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afthonos 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> A married parent who wants to stay home but can't quite afford it is forced to work.

I’m confused; how does your preferred policy solve this problem?

	▲	bluGill 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I don't have a stated preferred policy here. I'm questioning if the post I replied to really preferred this policy. Policy is a constant battle of unintended consequences. I clearly understand that nothing isn't immune from those consequences, and so I'm constantly adjusting my preferred policy trying to find the least bad compromise.

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fridder 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This isn't a perfect solution. If you want the most equitable then you go the UBI route. Otherwise you have to do fixes like this in order to make things better. Also you have to do the ROI on means testing