[morepedantic]

>Historically

The car seat related drop predates high daycare costs. In some places, high daycare costs aren't the primary concern: it's infant daycare waiting lists longer than 9 months.

Grandparents used to look after young children. Maybe we should incentivize that structure again? I'm open to other ideas.

[BobaFloutist]

As someone who doesn't have kids, and probably never will, it's super clear to me that we need to be subsidizing childcare costs with public funds.

Right now, childcare can't be affordable without the workers being paid exploitative low amounts. We should fix that, that's exactly the sort of problem that having a society is for.