“Family-friendly society” sounds SO BORING but listen: it’s what we all want. It’s what singles and elders want, it’s what parents and partnered people without kids want, it’s what KIDS WANT. A society that takes all of us — and our needs and capacities — seriously?? That considers all of us, in whatever scenario we find ourselves, AS A FAMILY? When we announced that we were doing this episode, we got a ton of questions asking us to also consider people who weren’t parents in their 30s and 40s, and yes, of course, team, I would never approach this topic without thinking expansively about it — as in, expansively enough to include me, and our beloved co-producer Melody, and all of our various family configurations.
I would only do an episode with expansive questions like yours with someone (with tremendously policy experience) who understands “family-friendly” expansively. So listen in as Elliot Haspel and I imagine a better (and possible!) family-friendly world.