Other rich countries have family policies the US doesn’t.

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Every other highincome country in the world has a paid maternity leave policy. Most have a paternity leave policy, too. And usually some form of universal or subsidized child care for all families. The United States has… none of these policies.

It did have federallyfunded child care once. And Congress even passed a universal child care policy in the 70s. But today, the US is stuck on a policy path of welfare and tax credits. So… why hasn’t the US been able to establish these common family policies?

The Promise of Preschool is a great dive into the history of child care policy in the US if you want to read more: https://oxford.universitypressscholar...

And Anna Danziger Halperin’s research on the US and UK policies is fascinating: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/...

The OECD has put together profiles on almost every rich country and their child policies, look up yours: https://www.oecd.org/education/school...

And UNICEF put together a great report on where rich countries stand with child care policies. The US is number 40 — out of 41.) https://gdc.unicef.org/resource/where...


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