People realizing neither parent should be default primary caregiver/breadwinner was a stepping stone to sharing both jobs, wasn’t it?

Sure, we’re not there. Blame inertia. Blame male resistance. But also: we never bothered to fight this battle.

Our employers appreciate it. So we settled for outsourcing parenthood to daycares, and, worse, to schooling as a stopgap. Regardless of how defunded it gets, or how inefficient and archaic it becomes, or how undercut and segregated and resistant and broken it ends up becoming.