Actually, the majority of households with children have one working parent, and it’s mom.

I’ve actually heard a lot of men are pressured into not taking the leave.

Husband who refuses leftovers can make his own fresh food daily. Or learn to buy frozen meals.

Most daycares won’t take children under 6 weeks, though. Which is a good thing, because daycares are full of germs and newborns are full of susceptibility.

It’s not premature, though. Women leaving the hospital are told not to lift anything heavier than the baby. (Relevant examples of things they might need to lift: the baby in their carseat, the baby’s older siblings.) They are also told to bring the baby in for a checkup at the pediatrician’s office at least three…

They would live with a relative/have a relative live with them.

I mean, it was expected that (white) women wouldn’t work and have kids. And that they wouldn’t go back to work soon/at all after kids were born. Also, due to several wars, there were significant gender imbalances in the adult population for much of the 20th century, making it more common to have widowed/unmarried…

The people who are most in need can’t afford six weeks at less than full salary.

Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood doesn’t have quite the peace that Mr. Rogers’s did. It’s paced faster, and jazzed up a little. That’s not to say we don’t watch it regularly, but I don’t think it will inspire conscious change the way its predecessor did.

They have a lot of full episodes on Amazon Prime.

Ooh, where is that?

I feel like it’s closer to an adult movie theater than a brothel.

Part of the point of discussions of privilege is that you have benefits that come from things you have control over (and, relatedly, other people have harms/risks from things they had no control over).

Not all schools are two story.

If their parent is signing them out for a doctor’s appointment, they won’t get zeros on assignments, right? And it is a similarly declared “excused absence.” Doesn’t this turn into a 1st Amendment issue again?

If a person is getting an abortion, often they are forced to do an ultrasound, in which case, they would see that there were two in there.

I have cousins who were surprise-twins (though, they’re 45, and this is pretty much impossible for people who get ultrasounds).

You can tell whenever you get an ultrasound (my first was at 6+ weeks, normal first is around 14 weeks).

I mean, it doesn’t change the fate of the actual babies, just people’s understanding of their fate.

With exceptions for servicemembers.