'National and state leaders should take the elevated approach to family policy by empowering parents, not government, to decide the best work and care arrangements for their families.' -nicdunnutah
In Utah, 75% of two-parenttheir ideal arrangement as one parent working full time while the other stays home with children or works only part time. That preference climbs to 84% when families are asked what they would do if they could cover household expenses on a single income.
Fixating solely on parental workforce participation, while viewing children as obstacles to that goal, is the wrong approach. A better vision for family policy in America would center on this question: How can we help more families achieve the work and child care arrangement they feel is best for their own family?
Such an approach takes a matter currently mired in partisan debate and elevates it to a broader, unifying goal that invites a wider array of policy innovations aimed at helping families.“All children will require child care whether it’s done in a center or facility, or whether it’s done at home with parents providing child care,” state Rep. Susan Pulsipher, who sponsored the bill, told me over the phone. “This tax credit will allow parents to choose which of those options work best for them.
Debates over the precise mechanism of a child tax credit and how it works in practice can and should continue alongside other ideas designed to help families. But that productive dialogue is only possible through this broader family-focused vision — one that is currently eschewed by the Biden administration and many other leaders across the country.
National and state leaders should take the elevated approach to family policy by empowering parents, not government, to decide the best work and care arrangements for their families.
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