EPPC: Wanted: A More Parent-Friendly Workplace
Patrick T. Brown, EPPC, March 22, 2023
The conversation among many on the political right has recently focused on the need for a pro-worker, pro-parent agenda. But how many of these conversations have focused on improving the lives of working parents?
It is essential to ensure families with a stay-at-home parent aren’t left out of the policy conversation, and for conservatives to criticize policy proposals that wrongly assume most families want to have both parents working full-time (they don’t.) In the UK, the governing Conservative Party has proposed giving parents 30 hours of free child care a week as a way of boosting the country’s economy—with “conservatives” like that, who needs progressives? It goes without saying that advocating for the family as an institution rightfully insulated from overbearing market forces should continue to be a priority.
