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We're in a culture where everything is either consumption or production, so child care is either a very, very bad-paying form of work or a very expensive luxury that you purchase. there isn't a good place in our picture of the world for what caregiving is about. even teenage babysitters have sort of disappeared from the scene.
-Alison Gopnik
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We're In A Culture Where Everything Is

Alison Gopnik
We're in a culture where everything is either consumption or production, so child care is either a very, very bad-paying form of work or a very expensive luxury that you purchase. there isn't a good place in our picture of the world for what caregiving is about. even teenage babysitters have sort of disappeared from the scene.
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