It's not that parents don't want to handle childcare. It's that American work culture and lack of social support makes childcare impossible for parents who don't have a stay-at-home partner/employee to rear the children.

In other countries is it still expected that one parent gives up their career in order to raise children? In America that went out of fashion after WW2.

I think some US employers still took the attitude that women who took significant time off to have a baby were not wanted back as late as the late 70s/early 80s. Like, I was told, the State of New York.

PS: There's a wonderful This American Life story about a pair of ranchers who cloned their prize bull, Chance. Second Chance, the clone, wasn't quite what they expected.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/291/reunited-and-it-feels-s...

But why? A clone would be their very own person who just happens to have an identical genome to another person.

Do you really thing a charity can afford that? And mattress companies have exactly zero incentive to fund this.

I bought a casper mattress. I now wish I had started "return proceedings" and gotten a refund, because it sounds like they just tell you to donate it.

Whoa whoa whoa... I do web animations for a living. What industry/agency/brand do you work with? Are they looking to hire?

People who work on making ads more attention-grabbing are actively working on making the world worse.

Problem is, the more intrusive an ad, the more likely it is to get blocked. Google is a pretty big player in the ad industry, and their ads are far from distracting.

"animated SVG blocker" seems like a very easy plugin to develop.

While I don't think I'll ever get on board with savory oatmeal, I'd be perfectly happy with savory grits or savory polenta. But really — there's no reason not to have roasted veggies and brown rice for a savory breakfast.

Don't judge yourself too harshly. Cooking requires quite a lot of intuition. Trust yourself and I promise you'll make something worth eating.