An itsy-bitsy bit more of day care. We need a President who goes further. A President who doesn't get trapped in generational wars over Social Security and health care but can make the generational links. Mr. President, we need you in the bully pulpit and in the Congress, enlisting older Americans to care about schools and reminding young parents to see ahead to elder care. We need to make sure that employers offer up flextime so we can take kids to soccer practice and parents to doctors.
Women are in the workplace.
Families need their paycheck and the country needs their talent. We can't simply assume that they will carry the double burden and blame them when it is too heavy. We are told to make it on our own and we are taught that life has little meaning unless it's shared with others. For a long time, we solved that tension by divvying up the roles. Now women's lives are becoming more like men's.