[nineplay]

A more egalitarian solution would be longer paid parental leave and earlier free childcare. Are women leaving jobs due to a genuine desire to be a full-time parent, or are women leaving jobs because the alternative is putting a three-month-old in prohibitively expensive daycare?

[AussieWog93]

Anecdata, but most women I've spoken to prefer to delay childcare until the kid is around a year old.

There seems to be good reasons for not separating an extremely young child from their mother.