'Naïve, aloof and divorced from reality': Experts slam J.D. Vance's latest family advice
'Naïve, aloof and divorced from reality': Experts slam J.D. Vance's latest family advice
I once got a call from friends at ten in the morning asking if I could go to my goddaughter's mother's Day brunch at the daycare so she wouldn't be alone. Apparently mom couldn't get the day off and grandmall was supposed to go but grandmall fell sick that morning. So I was the hail Mary call and I just happened to be on PTO that day. You're damn right I dropped everything to go have juice and cookies and make bracelets with my girl. Point is that everyone who can and gives a shit is already involved in childcare.
My cousin's wife won't let anyone babysit their kids because it gives her anxiety, except for occasionally a few hours with the grandparents. It's nuts. She really needs to get some therapy before her kids are old enough to have anxiety themselves about being somewhere without her.
He's saying grandparents should help out ...
If you're not familiar with Vance, according to him his mom was a drug addict, married a couple dudes (which is JD has had like 3 different legal names) and then his mom's parents raised him
Which is likely where he got his weird views on hillbillies from. He's projecting all of his mother's faults into a whole demographic.
Gotta wonder if his mother, or father who walked out on him, would be trusted to watch his kids today. I'd imagine not. Things are simple for everyone but him.
When my wife told me what he said I assumed it was an onion article. When she said it was real I assumed it was taken out of context - surely there was some policy proposal behind these comments, like a new federal stipend for caretakers. Nope - he genuinely seems to believe that the government's role in childcare is reminding parents that they can ask friends/family for help, as if there's a struggling parent out there who needs to hear this. I really don't understand who he's trying to reach with these comments - it's like reminding homeless people that they can panhandle if they're struggling, which is an obtuse way of saying "fuck you, you're on your own."
"fuck you, you're on your own."
Lol, the only consistent policy they've held since I've been of voting age.
"Unless you're rich, then we've got your back!"
I've always heard it as "fuck you, I got mine" but yeah, same sentiment.
“The slow days of most people having retired grandparents at home with nothing else to do are over for most people as the older generations are still working the same hamster wheels for survival that the young parents are just getting on.”
Meanwhile, three of my grandparents died before I was born. Grandma will have to look after a shitload of grandkids with no help.
Essentially he’s saying: not my problem.
"Make it so that.. there's an aunt or uncle who wants to help out a little more."
I see a lot of people talking about how they're trying to force grandparents to work until they die, which is completely fucked, but not enough people noticed how he's trying to make people responsible for their sibling's choice to have kids or not.
Basically, if you don't already have generational wealth, he's going to make it so no one in your entire family can escape the cycle of poverty.
Absolutely horrifying.
That is unfortunately how almost 70% of the post-boomers have to live. Working til they die.
Remember, when Mr. Word Salad gets elected and dies soon after, THIS will be his replacement.
Why? Even if enough people bother to vote for Harris, Cheatoes' friends have infiltrated the polling stations to steal the election for real
Okay, couch-fucker.
Man ill never trust a dude with Jared Leto eye liner
Yes. We should all just get comfortable with getting by with less and be expected to work further into old age for free.
It’s really the best way we can increase shareholder value and help concentrate wealth at the top.
What nobody usually mentions is that if there are grandparents, aunts and uncles, siblings who are able to help with child care, they already fucking are, it’s not like there’s some vast untapped reserve of child care labor out there sitting idle.
Ah, yes. The Giving Tree, except possibly with multiple kids sourcing from the same trees. Good ol' stump-forest child rearing.