Hello Roger,
Your suggestion is an interesting one, and for me of special interest both due to my own policy activist work and the fact that you are a male!
In discussion around caregiving and compensation, I often find it frustrating because it seems to be linked to "women's issues" in discussions mostly amongst/between females. I wonder how males actually think about parental caretaking and compensatory schemes.
In any case, I'd like to extend this discussion to the online platform for whom I work as an advocate for a Caring Economy, envisioned by social systems activist Riane Eisler. She offers one of the more comprehensive proposals for what it would mean to shift our economic model to one based on human capacity building/human capital, rather than strict monetary profits.
If you are so interested, please see http://caringeconomy.org/
and also for further online discussions, you can join http://partnershipway.ning.com/
Thank you!
Chrysalis Hyon
