The 1971 Veto That Created America's Childcare Crisis (ft. Susan Douglas, Pt. 2)
What We Cover:How WWII-era nurseries proved government-funded childcare could work — and why it disappeared after the warThe Red Scare backlash that rebranded daycare as dangerous and un-AmericanThe bipartisan childcare bill that reached Nixon's desk in 1971 — and why he vetoed itWhy America still has no federally funded, licensed daycare system todayThe 1980s McMartin daycare scandal, media sensationalism, and how manufactured fear reshaped parenting for goodWhy kids had far more freedom in the '50s and '60s despite a more dangerous worldThe new, harder-to-solve version of that fear: phones…
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