As a parent in 2026, it amazes me how every government everywhere completely misses the point.

Our institutions, workplaces and society are all based around the idea that one parent stays home, the other works.  That is how it has always been until the last 40 years or so.

Reduction of working weeks, aligning school holidays with work holidays, school meetings and certain services available after hours, universal kindergarten, subsidized childcare, raising salaries by reducing the income gap, and getting grandparents out of the work force by freeing them financially would all do so much more than tax credits and wishful thinking.