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Could? This has been happening for a long, long time. It's not a new phenomenon!
@… - Older Australian women could retire in poverty, new report says http…

Looming crisis for older Australian women who will retire into poverty if no urgent action taken, new report finds
Women’s super balances are disproportionately impacted by events later in life, in addition to childcare duties, which could mean serious financial problems, research from Super Members Council (SMC) has found. 

A potential reading list...
https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/potential-list-of-books-slated-for-removal-from-edmonton-school-libraries-contains-significant-works-…

Rock on, New Mexico! If we can't unfuck our healthcare system for everyone, at least unfuck it for children.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/09/new-mexico-free-universal-childcare

There was a piece on morning TV that started “Parents are being urged to apply [for a new childcare benefit]” and as usual I said (to myself) “can we stop using administrative burden to control demand?”
But then the first question the presenter asked the minister was “why is this not automatic?”

#NewMexico will be the first state to make #childcare free
The program, which will start in November and is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.

Demonstration of a Compatibility-Based Childcare Support Service using Quantum Annealing
Yuuma Matsumoto, Taisei Takabayashi, Rima Sato, Rumiko Honda, Masayuki Ohzeki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08520

Demonstration of a Compatibility-Based Childcare Support Service using Quantum Annealing
In contemporary Japan, isolated parenting has become a serious social issue, increasing psychological stress on parents and potentially affecting children's development. Existing childcare support services tend to focus on physical assistance, while psychological support and community connections remain insufficient. To address this gap, we developed a service that connects parents with senior community members who have parenting experience, aiming to provide psychological support and foster in…

TL;DR: spending money to find the cause of autism is a eugenics project, and those resources could have been spent improving accommodations for Autistic people instead.
To preface this, I'm not Autistic but I'm neurodivergent with some overlap.
We need to be absolutely clear right now: the main purpose is *all* research into the causes of autism is eugenics: a cause is sought because non-autistic people want to *eliminate* autistic people via some kind of "cure." It should be obvious, but a "cured autistic person" who did not get a say in the decision to administer that "cure" has been subjected to non-consensual medical intervention at an extremely unethical level. Many autistic people have been exceptionally clear that they don't want to be "cured," including some people with "severe autism" such as people who are nonverbal.
When we think things like "but autism makes life so hard for some people," we're saying that the difficulties in their life are a result of their neurotype, rather than blaming the society that punished & devalues the behaviors that result from that neurotype at every turn. To the extent that an individual autistic person wants to modify their neurotype and/or otherwise use aids to modify themselves to reduce difficulties in their life, they should be free to pursue that. But we should always ask the question: "what if we changed their social or physical environment instead, so that they didn't have to change themselves?" The point is that difficulties are always the product of person x environment, and many of the difficulties we attribute to autism should instead be attributed to anti-autistic social & physical spaces, and resources spent trying to "find the cause of autism" would be *much* better spent trying to develop & promote better accommodations for autism. Or at least, that's the case if you care about the quality of life of autistic people and/or recognize their enormous contributions to society (e.g., Wikipedia could not exist in anything near its current form without autistic input). If instead you think of Autistic people as gross burdens that you'd rather be rid of, then it makes sense to investigate the causes of autism so that you can eventually find a "cure."
All of that to say: the best response to lies about the causes of autism is to ask "What is the end goal of identifying the cause?" instead of saying "That's not true, here's better info about the causes."
#autism #trump
P.S. yes, I do think about the plight of parents of autistic kids, particularly those that have huge struggles fitting into the expectations of our society. They've been put in a position where society constantly bullies and devalues their kid, and makes it mostly impossible for their kid to exist without constant parental support, which is a lot of work and which is unfair when your peers get the school system to do a massive amount of childcare. But in that situation, your kid is in an even worse position than you as the direct victim of all of that, and you have a choice: are you going to be their ally against the unfair world, or are you going to blame them and try to get them to confirm enough that you can let the school system take care of them, despite the immense pain that that will provoke? Please don't come crying for sympathy if you choose the later option (and yes, helping them be able to independently navigate society is a good thing for them, but there's a difference between helping them as their ally, at their pace, and trying to force them to conform to reduce the burden society has placed on you).

"We are recommending a national screening clearance system and national registration for workers in the aged care, NDIS, veterans’ care and early childhood education and childcare sectors – making it harder for a worker found to be unsafe in one sector to move to another without detection."
Sounds a no-brainer.

From childcare to aged care, how to make it better for all of us
By increasing productivity in the care economy, we can reduce costs and, crucially, improve the quality of care for Australians.

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%... "That's just how it is."
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Replaced article(s) found for physics.soc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Parenthood Penalties in Academia: Childcare Responsibilities, Gender Role Beliefs and Institution...
Xi Hong, Xiang Zheng, Haimiao Yuan, Chaoqun Ni

The wee one is sick (again) so he'll be going to the doctor's instead of childcare tomorrow before being dropped off at his mum's.
Childcare: the gift that keeps on giving.
Too many people have to work and therefore the little ones go to kindy and childcare even when they're not well.
Because the parents have to work and feel they have no choice.
#UBI

So... Would anyone on here like to help me playtest a (probably very broken) game? I can't promise to play that quickly considering childcare, but it can easily be played asynchronously via posts. Reply with your opening rule pick as purple if you'd like to play (feel free to play with someone else and report back if you'd like to).
#Crungle

Remote Work and Women's Labor Supply: The New Gender Division at Home
Isabella Di Filippo, Bruno Escobar, Juan Facal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08184 https://

Remote Work and Women's Labor Supply: The New Gender Division at Home
We study how increases in remote work opportunities for men affect their spouses' labor supply. Exploiting variation in the change in work-from-home (WFH) exposure across occupations before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, we find that women whose husbands experienced larger WFH increases are over 2 percentage points more likely to be employed, equivalent to a 4% rise relative to pre-pandemic levels. Evidence from time-use diaries and childcare questionnaires suggests these effects are driven b…