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France has strong labor unions, 30 days of paid vacation rights, and a younger retirement age, Delvaux added.

“They strike a lot and are generally not scared to destabilize the entire economy to get their needs met,” Delvaux said.

Daphne Delvaux, an employment attorney and founder of The Mamattorney, a platform educating women on their rights at work, told Salon that in her opinion, the biggest issue is that the U.S. does not invest financially in child care.

Mothers today frequently face “an impossible choice,” Delvaux said.

Proposing grandparents to solve the child care crisis is “naïve, aloof and divorced from reality at best,” Delvaux said.