Thank you for your honesty. I know I belong to the last generation that could afford the ‘luxury’ of bringing up my own children - and even then I was in a minority. How have we got here? Something has gone very wrong with modern society - that the mother or father of young children is forced to hand over the most important work there is - bringing up the next generation - to a stranger - while they go out to earn money to largely cover the costs of the babysitter, with a bit left over to cover the rent and basic necessities. Not because they want to afford luxuries. Nor because they view their career as a greater priority than bringing up their offspring. Even sadder is the number of women who have been taught to believe that a paid job is worthwhile, bringing up their own children not. We will have a heavy price to pay. Thank god for bitcoin.

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And when you look around at all the empty parks and communal play areas , because all under 3s are in daycare, and young mums working, you realize how terribly, terribly lonely it must be for the odd mother who is still trying to be the primary care giver. You need a community to bring up children. True then. True now.