Sorry for linking to Krone.at, which is a running joke in Austria regarding their quality, but i couldn’t find an english language source anywhere else.
And it’s only mildly infuriating if you are a well-tempered person - i personally find it outrageous. His main argument is that child rearing is no business case. Maybe we should make it one.



I’m not trying to debate your point itself, but where are you getting the 96 hours figure from? That sounded like a lot to me, and I get a much lower figure from this source: https://fairsorgen.at/zeitverwendungsstudie-mehr-arbeit-weniger-zeit-weniger-geld/
Sorry, i adopted the number from ORF.at, where this number was cited by the woman who then got told that “childcare isn’t work”. I did not verify it - but maybe she referred to homesteading women, where this number might easily be reached (and still doesn’t count for their pensions)
https://orf.at/stories/3438475/