Half of the country, more like 10% it's the media pumping those numbers up.
You can still start getting organised while keeping your job, let the people who have the means will and time do their part, and do your part, your part may be smaller but it will still end up making a difference.
Even calling your representative will amount to something.
His mostly shaven ball sacks looked like the skin of a Shar-Pei dog, their eerie wobble mesmerized me like a deer caught in the headlights of a 1982 GMC Vandura...
In my experience it only gets harder the older you get (if I were in my 20s when I got my first kid it would have been easier to handle, except I was studying then...), and you will never really be ready for all the needs of a baby, it's something you have to learn step by step.
That said when you first have them it's a great experience being a parent.
This reminds me about Numberphile has a video that proves you can get a 4 legged table to be stable with all 4 legs touching the ground by rotating it.
It shows that a 5 y/o and a 15 y/o is running the country.