From a parent, daycare provider, and state perspective, having infants (especially those <1 year old) in licensed programs is often not ideal -- parents tend to prefer providing care themselves during that period, it's very expensive for providers (plus the classrooms are hard to staff- you can love babies and not want to spend 250+ days a year in a room with eight of them!), and subsidies for those rooms cost states a lot of money per child. At-Home Infant Care programs can be a win-win-win in this respect, especially (in my opinion) if chained with good paid family leave following a birth.

While I don't have any interest in making recreational pot a hill to die on, I do think conventional wisdom erroneously believes that rec marijuana is by now widely legal in Europe when it's actually fully legal in only 8 countries worldwide (Canada, Czechia, Georgia, Germany, Luxembourg, Malta, South Africa, and Uruguay), along with half the U.S. states. A couple others have de facto legalization (Mexico, Thailand), and plenty of countries have medical legalization and/or have decriminalized small amounts of possession. But with regards to how we treat recreational weed, the U.S. is part of a pretty small group of outliers.