Or expand them. My childless brother burned through all of his PTO taking care of my dad, before I moved up there to live with him and do all the driving, doctor's visits, and hospital bedside sits for the final 4 months of his life. If I hadn't been available, my brother would have had to quit his job. These things are needed not just to care for kids, but to care for *family*. Not just affordable child care, but affordable respite care and home health care workers. And affordable because the government subsidizes a decent wage, not because they're paid so little, the only people who take the jobs are thieves looking for easy scores.