They briefly go over the "child-free mindset." Nothing new here. The main argument is that if you don't have kids you won't have anyone to take care of you in old age. Meanwhile, if everyone had kids got automatic elder care, the nursing home industry would be quite a bit smaller. The second argument is that most people find fulfillment in their connection with others rather than through their jobs. I think this is a factual statement but I don't see how this argument is specific to having children. There are tons of connections a person could have with others. Offspring is simply one of them.

She gets a bit into government systems and childcare pointing out that efforts to have the NHS cover universal childcare from birth is simply another way to separate the child from their mother. She talks about how in civilizations across the world, it was the norm for mother and child to be together and supported by the women in their community for 30-40 days after birth and this had several benefits. All in all, she views modernity’s impact on the mother/child relationship as negative. I’d say that I agree with this. Current society is not set up to make things easy for mothers. She says that stay at home mothers are the least represented in the halls of power. I’d also pretty much agree with that.

The solution she offers is that the government should do a better job at recognizing the extended family rather than just the nuclear family unit when it comes to benefits, employment accommodations, etc.

I do think it is noteworthy that while on one hand she argues that the nuclear family unit is the most failsafe option for children’s wellbeing, she does promote multi-generational households… mostly to the extent that this means there will be another woman in the house to help take care of the children much like she outlined earlier with the 30-40 day rest period. She also brings up how feminists and others in the past have experimented with what are essentially female communes where children were also raised but that they all ultimately failed. I guess I just find it kind of ironic that the idea of a female community is only seen as feasible when you have this background structure of each of those women being partnered with men.