Caregiving work is work. People who stay home to take care of children or the elderly should, at the VERY LEAST, earn Social Security quarters for it. (And ideally, everyone would receive a UBI that would allow them to do things like caregiving work without having to worry about losing the roof over their heads.)
As technology advances, and society gets the ability to be more soft and thoughtful (rather than having 90% of the population doing subsistence agriculture or else we all starve), then we should be giving people MORE benefits and MORE ability to do things like unpaid caregiving work. Fuck the Gods of the Copybook Headings. We can defeat them with technology, if we put our minds to it.
But that doesn’t help the shareholders, does it?
My friend sent me this link to a government website about registering as a caregiver for a disabled adult! As noted there, you can contact your state’s Medicaid office to learn more.
Emilybook 