A Trump proposal would punish single parents. Other wealthy countries have a different approach
The proposal would shift funds that subsidize childcare for low-income working parents – the majority of them single parents who rely on childcare providers – to low-income married couples with one earner.
Key points
- In its latest pronatalist push, the Trump administration aims to shift funds away from them When news broke that the Trump administration planned to pay married couples to have one parent stay home with their kids, everyone from policy wonks to Redditors bemoaned what they saw as a new front in the mommy wars.
Given that most single parents and stay-at-home parents are women, and both groups would be applying for the same limited funds, it seemed almost designed to pit moms against each other.
Canada, the Netherlands and Sweden offer extra support to solo-parent households.
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