Child Care War Machine Edition
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On today's show, hosts Allison Benedikt and Gabriel Roth chat with journalist Bryce Covert about the surprising history of child care in America. Then, they talk with professor Diane Levin about how children often segregate friendships along gender lines by the time they reach preschool age. Plus, a conflicted listener wrestles with supporting football, just in time for the Super Bowl and Allison shares a big announcement...
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.2 | Hello and welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting podcast for Thursday, February 2nd, the Child Care War Machine Edition. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Gabriel Roth, an editor at Slate and the dad of Eliza, age 6, and Leo, who's two and a half. And I'm Alison Benedict, also an editor at Slate and the dad of Eliza, age six, and Leo, who's two and a half. |
| 0:21.4 | And I'm Alison Benedict, also an editor at Slate and the mom of Harry 8, Sam, 6, and Wally |
| 0:27.7 | three. |
| 0:28.7 | On today's show, we're going to be talking about the cost of child care and the long history |
| 0:33.1 | of attempts to do something about it. |
| 0:35.1 | And why do boy girlfriends die off in preschool? Plus, parenting |
| 0:39.4 | triumphs and fails, recommendations, and a call from a listener with a football problem. |
| 0:44.2 | If you're a member of Slate Plus, thank you for your support. If you're not a member, you can become one and |
| 0:49.2 | hear the special extra long Slate Plus edition of this and other almost equally good Slate podcasts by visiting |
| 0:56.0 | Slate.com slash mom and dad plus. That's slate.com slash mom and dad plus. And be sure to |
| 1:03.2 | check out our Facebook page. Facebook.com slash mom and dad are fighting where this week you will |
| 1:08.6 | see an update from Dan Coisice who has arrived in wellington new |
| 1:12.8 | zealand and who has a lot of exciting news about how his family is adjusting to life down under |
| 1:19.3 | that's facebook dot com slash mom and dad are fighting click like while you're there uh that's all the |
| 1:25.9 | announcements for me for a minute, because Allison has one of |
| 1:29.1 | her own. I do, and it's kind of a hard one to make, but I have decided to pass the show on to new |
| 1:37.1 | hosts and say goodbye. This is not going to happen immediately. We're still figuring out exactly who |
| 1:42.5 | the new host will be. Gabe will definitely be around for a while, which is great news because Gabe is awesome. And I'll be in and out until |
| 1:49.4 | that's all decided. But soon I'm going to step away and leave the show in better hands. |
| 1:56.7 | I, there are a couple of reasons why. My job at Slate outside of the podcast has gotten bigger and it's become harder to focus on the show and make it as good as it should be for you guys. |
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